Foreign Affairs committee  It's an interesting question. My challenge was that I wanted to use a standard that wasn't attributable to one legal system or another. I had the big challenge of not wanting to take a common law standard or a civil law standard. What I researched were the different standards, a

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, we had these challenges when I was heading the mutual assistance section at the Department of Justice. You would have these requests come in with information that was maybe not sufficient to get a freezing order. Internationally, this is a very well-known practice. The ban

Foreign Affairs committee  Just on the general atmosphere, I think the context of whether Canada should take that kind of approach is.... Personally, I was in Rome when the Rome Statute was adopted, creating the International Criminal Court. I remember the great enthusiasm, and we saw ratification in a sho

Foreign Affairs committee  Thanks very much. It was my pleasure.