Mr. Speaker, we are here to protect Canadians.
On January 31, while Canadian Bill Sampson was close to death in a Saudi torture chamber, our Minister of Foreign Affairs said that they were making sure that Mr. Sampson was well treated and that he had all his rights available to him. Now in a disturbing revelation, foreign affairs officials have admitted that the minister knew for some time that Mr. Sampson was being tortured.
Why did the minister not go public with this information and shame the Saudi regime into stopping the torture of Mr. Sampson?