I would like to welcome you both to our study of Bill C-59 and thank you for being here. I'm going to start with Amnesty International.
I'm just going to quote you. On your website, where you've written about Bill C-59, you say that you'd “also hoped that the government would act to address longstanding concerns about the failure to...reject torture in Canada’s intelligence sharing arrangements with other countries.” You've mentioned that here as well.
Ministerial directions were put in place in September, and those had obviously been a decade old since they had been updated. First of all, the ministerial directions prohibit sharing information if there is a reasonable ground to believe it could lead to torture. How did these improve on the previous directions, which I mentioned were decades old?