Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. My question is for Minister O'Connor.
Minister, recently two individuals detained in Afghan prisons told Correctional Service Canada officers visiting their penitentiary that they had been mistreated.
Did the Canadian authorities investigate the matter?
There is no way to find out. The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Department of Public Safety keep passing the buck.
As a result of asking questions, we learned, from the spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ambra Dickie, that relevant information on this matter had been forwarded to the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission and to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
What was this relevant information? Why is this information available abroad but not available to Canadians through this committee? Why the silence?
Minister, I would like to reiterate that you are accountable to the people through Parliament and this committee.
Would you commit to providing this committee with the findings of the inquiry into the allegations made by these two inmates, and to provide the correspondence on this issue between the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, the International Red Cross and the Afghan International Human Rights Commission?
Thank you.