Foreign Affairs committee  Minus what has been said and that has been made clear. Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  To start with, some of this is in retrospect. One need not comment on the individual case. In the end, we have to actually do our very best to get Canadians out. That becomes the issue. If there are other issues involved, obviously we're going to look at those as well in any case

Foreign Affairs committee  If I may say so, I think there is an additional issue. Those are general figures, but if you are questioning us specifically about Daesh.... That's a figure that covers a wider number of people—not just Daesh fighters, but al Shabaab and others.

Foreign Affairs committee  My comments were specifically with regard to where the conversation was going at that point in terms of military intervention. Of course, the government's position is clear about not paying ransom and not giving political compromises. That's very clear. In terms of how we deal w

Foreign Affairs committee  It's a good question. In fact, that support is available at the provincial level. Of course, psychological services and so forth are provided in Canada at that level. What we do at the federal level is to connect up with the provincial level to make sure the right people are conn

Foreign Affairs committee  Each case is different. It hasn't really been so much of a problem in the much smaller number of cases that we deal with. We do deal very carefully on a privacy basis with the families themselves. As you say, when someone is kidnapped, we don't have a contact with them. We're n

Foreign Affairs committee  That totally depends on the situation. There are a number of possible answers. Truly, it really depends. So much depends on what we're actually facing. Are we facing a terrorist demand in which there are more than ransom issues at play? Do they want, for example, the freedom of

Foreign Affairs committee  It's not my area, so you have the right person here. Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's right. We would provide a risk assessment to the Prime Minister—to any prime minister, of course. I'm at a bit of a disadvantage here, because first of all, my job is not to defend the Prime Minister; my job is to testify to you as a public servant, and of course I am re

Foreign Affairs committee  By principle, the senior decision-maker is the Prime Minister. That's the form of our government. Of course—again, I'm not talking about any particular case—these things are extremely complex, and there is a whole-of-government approach. They are not just a question of military,

Foreign Affairs committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for the invitation to appear before the committee. My name is David Drake, and I am the Director General of Global Affairs Canada's Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Intelligence Bureau. I have had direct responsibility for and operational oversight of the

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Well, certainly I'll get back to you with more details, but the intent is to make sure that we support police border control and judicial systems in dealing with this. In many cases, they simply do not know how to properly process from a judicial perspective. We're certainly focu

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  They do.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  To be honest, I don't know in detail. I know there is some very good information about that, including a U.S. report. The U.S. focuses on this, I think. I've been noting that a lot of your indicators are coming from that report, such as the 77%, and so forth. Although I can't pr

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. In fact, I was looking to comment on that. This is a part of our anti-crime capacity building program. It's under me in our department. It's not foreign aid per se, and it's very much designed to strengthen the ability of the local governments to deal with s