Mr. Speaker, our “say the right thing and do nothing about it” government is at it again.
Three years ago, the then foreign affairs minister, Stéphane Dion, was at an event sponsored by my colleague from Windsor—Tecumseh, where he announced with great fanfare that Canada would be signing the optional protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. That was in 2016. It is now 2019, and there has been no progress on that front.
Will the government at long last walk the talk and ratify the protocol, or is it only for show, as usual?