Mr. Speaker, let me just quote the response from the minister when I asked him the question about why we would send our ambassador back. This is an important point.
We pressured the government for a long time to bring the ambassador home so the whole world would know the level of concern we had. It is very serious when a country brings its ambassador home. We did not say to close down the embassy. We still have consular staff there who can deal with Canadians who might be in trouble. Heaven help them if they get in trouble in Iran after the example this government has shown in terms of not standing up for a Canadian citizen.
There was a point when the government actually brought the ambassador home temporarily before we ever found out the awful truth. It was kind of like a little tap on the Iranian wrist. Then when we found out the details that she was wrongly arrested, tortured, raped, murdered, we sent the ambassador back to normalize relations.
There was no sense in doing that. Why did the government fail all Canadians this way?