Mr. Speaker, torture is prohibited under the Criminal Code of Canada and the United Nations Convention against Torture, to which we are a signatory.
The minister claims not to condone torture and then, however, he opens the door wide for other countries to use torture and for us to use that information.
In 2009 the Conservative public safety minister said, “If there's any indication...that torture may have been used, that information is discounted”.
Why has the government flip-flopped and thrown open the doors to use immoral and unreliable information extracted through torture?