Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Foreign Affairs initially refused to intercede on behalf of Raif Badawi because he is not a Canadian.
The Liberal opposition insisted that the minister condemn the cruel and inhuman punishment inflicted on the blogger and that he call on the Saudi authorities to overturn his sentence, just as the United Nations, the U.S. government and many Nobel Prize recipients have done.
Will the Prime Minister intercede directly with the new Saudi king as requested by Mr. Badawi's spouse?