Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Some of the amendments are sometimes more difficult to read because we get into language about subsections and deleting lines and such. However, I think this one is worth reading into the record for those following along, since the folks who follow us don't see the text of all of the amendments. That can make the process challenging.
This amendment proposes that Bill C-59, in clause 76, be amended by adding after line 5 on page 75 the following:
47.1 (1) The Establishment is prohibited from
(a) disclosing information obtained in the performance of its duties and functions under this Act, or requesting information, if the disclosure or the request would subject an individual to a danger, believed on substantial grounds to exist, of mistreatment; or
(b) using information that is believed on reasonable grounds to have been obtained as a result of mistreatment of an individual.
(2) For the purposes of this section, mistreatment means torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment within the meaning of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, signed at New York on December 10, 1984.