Yes, Mr. Cotler. There's a general policy in the department that goes back to sometime in the 1990s. Due to the cost implications of treaty negotiations for extradition, and mutual assistance, the deputy minister at the time put a moratorium on seeking new treaties both in the extradition context or the mutual legal assistance context, unless there was an exceptional case. Basically that's the situation we've been under now since sometime in the 1990s—I don't know the date—when the moratorium was put on negotiating new treaties, except in exceptional cases.
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