Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
A Canadian citizen, Stéphane Sbikowski, has been a prisoner in a Venezuelan penitentiary for 17 months now, without his case having even been heard.
Three weeks ago, we asked the Secretary of State for Africa and Latin America if she intended to use political pressure to speed up the hearing of Mr. Sbikowski's case. Her reply at that time was that her department would contact us-