Mr. Chair, I want to thank my hon. friend and colleague for that question and for bringing up a very important initiative of the Government of Canada, the Office of Religious Freedom and indeed Ambassador Bennett who has travelled the world and has met with many leaders, not only around the world but indeed here within Canada, to get as much information as he possibly can so that he can execute his plan of ensuring that human rights are respected everywhere around the world.
While Iran continues to demonstrate its unwillingness to live up to its international human rights obligations, Canada continues to advocate through Ambassador Bennett, through the good work of our ministry of foreign affairs, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the parliamentary secretary, and the entire department for the basic human rights of the Iranian people.
Ambassador Bennett has made it very clear that we as Canadians have zero tolerance for the violation of human rights. We stand up with the people of Iran. It is the people within the borders of Iran who are suffering the most. Those who were fortunate enough to leave and who are fortunate enough to get out understand and see the value of living in a country such as Canada where they can live in peace, tolerance, and acceptance, and in love with their neighbours, irrespective of where they came from around the world, irrespective of the language they speak, irrespective of the culture they have, irrespective of who they are and who they believe in religiously.
Ambassador Bennett is doing a fabulous job for Canada. We need to continue to support that effort, as we all do here in this Parliament, because it is a shining example of what other countries around the world can be doing.