Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs said in this House, “We have no evidence of systematic torture of detainees”.
The minister is therefore admitting that there is torture in Afghan prisons, but since it is not systematic, it is not too serious.
I want to remind the minister, who should know this article, that article 12 of the Geneva convention clearly stipulates that prisoners may not be transferred to a country that engages in torture. Yet it continues, whether it is systemic or not.
Does the Prime Minister realize that his government is systematically violating the Geneva convention when it continues—