Madam Chair, it is hard to put a dollar sign on this, monetize this, or speak in financial or economic terms when talking about people's lives.
I will share with my hon. colleague the following story of a constituent of mine in Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill who came to me and told me their first cousin was taken from his bed, in his bedroom where he was with his parents. The young man was taken from there. He disappeared for three days, only for the family to be informed three days later to go pick up his body at a specific corner on two streets in Tehran. When they went to find the person, their loved one, he still had a pulse, but he was near death with a note on him that said, “If you dare take him to the hospital or dare call a doctor, we will not only kill him, but we will kill all of you as well.”
I find it very difficult to sit here and talk about what will perhaps have an economic effect on Canada and, at the same time, say it does not matter what happens to people living in Iran because they are living there and we are living here. That is not human. I cannot participate in a discussion at that level.