We would not be going against our obligations under the convention by creating a second torture offence that applied only to private actors. It's less a question around our legal obligations and whether we're fulfilling them. It's more at the policy level with the object of the convention being around stopping states from torturing. What we would like to see as an international position is a consistency in the definition that allows other states where torture does occur much more regularly than in Canada to be held to account for those kinds of offences.
