Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank you all for being here today to give us insight into this bill.
What I understand, after listening to everyone, especially you, Mr. Conroy, is that the current legislation works. That is what I used to think as well, before this government was elected, of course. Since it has been in power, I have found that there are fewer and fewer transfers. In fact, my office receives requests from prisoners. We call the department, and we get no response, which is another matter.
Instead of calling this bill An Act to amend the International Transfer of Offenders Act, I would have called it the Omar Khadr Act. It is my sense that this bill was drafted in such a way as to make the process so arbitrary that the government would have the discretion to deny applications from people like Omar Khadr. Am I wrong?
Do you think the government is trying to do away with anything involving rehabilitation and make sure that, from the moment someone is arrested for a crime in another country, they have to stay there?