I would respectfully disagree with my colleague. As I said, I supported the amendment because it is a nice preamble and it's good to have it in law, but at the end of the day, LIB-16 also says with regard to directions—because that's what is being talked about, ministerial directions—that:
The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the appropriate minister, issue written directions to any deputy head in respect of
It then goes on to enumerate the circumstances under which information may have been obtained through the use of torture.
Again, I support that amendment because I'll support any effort of the government that is moving in that direction, but clearly NDP-41 is much stronger and more explicit that there is in law no way that CSE can neither obtain nor share information that has any connection to the mistreatment of people.
I would also ask to have a recorded vote on this, please.