Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I am going to continue with Ms. Pollack about the matter we were discussing just now. You said that you recognize that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service sometimes uses information obtained by torture. First, do you feel that this has been rectified, or does it continue to be done in certain cases? Second, do you feel that using information obtained by torture represents a kind of torture subcontract?
I do not know if you have any information on the Omar Khadr case. Last summer, in July, we saw videos in the media and on the Internet of young Omar Khadr in tears during interrogation. He said that he had lost his eye and his feet. It was intelligence agents, if I am not mistaken, who were telling him that, no, he still had his eye and his feet were still on the end of his legs. That is what one of the men there said.
We are told that, during that interrogation, one of the agents present was from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. I have a copy from the Internet. You can tell me if it is a good copy or if the report of the interrogation, put on line by lawyers, I think, is false—it looks authentic to me.
What do you think of the attitude of the intelligence agents in the video towards this young man, a minor in 2003 when he was interrogated. He seemed to have wounds, evidence of torture, that is, on his body. A federal court in Canada has apparently said that Omar Khadr had been tortured by his American guards.
Do you feel that it is normal for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to do nothing to protect a Canadian national? Is that common? Have you heard about it?