Yes, that's right. A foreign government is not under any obligation to inform us if a Canadian has been arrested, in the same way that we don't automatically inform other countries if one of their citizens is arrested here. It's the citizen himself who controls that, who decides whether or not they want to communicate with their own government. Of course, that's an important protection, because there are some countries that would like us to tell them when we have imprisoned someone here or may be providing some assistance to them. We don't necessarily want to do that.
