I think the government needs to keep all of these options open and pursue this whole issue in a strategic, step-by-step manner going forward, hopefully not alone. We need to work in concert with other like-minded countries and to meticulously not rule out any potential measure to hold Iran to account. The critical thing at the moment is to make sure the reparation negotiations get properly started, because that's another forum in which we'll pursue the truth from Iran. While that is going ahead, Canada should be raising this issue at ICAO, in other UN agencies, and through every channel and means to make sure the world does not forget.
Let me put together a troika of events that show the slippery slope you can get on. Back in 2014, there was the MH17 that was shot down over the Russian border. That prompted a series of reflections by ICAO and other bodies about what you could do to improve air safety. Five and a half years later, PS752 was shot down by Iran. About a month ago, there was the Ryanair incident, in which an aircraft was taken in what appears to have been a state-sponsored hijacking. The world needs to take this seriously. There is no reason for anyone to believe the skies over Tehran are any safer today than they were in January of 2020.
Canada, with the rest of the world co-operating and collaborating, needs to make it abundantly clear that we aren't going to forget—and we're not going to let the world forget—that 55 Canadian citizens, 30 permanent residents of Canada and another 53 or 54 innocent people with direct connections to Canada lost their lives on that horrendous morning. That is something Canadians will never forget.