Thank you to the witnesses.
I want to ask questions related to Canada's international obligations under the UN Convention against Torture. Certainly, when I look at, for example, proposed section 268.1, it makes sense to me to make the argument that that could undercut our international obligations in the sense that it is a narrower definition than the definition provided in section 269.1 of the Criminal Code and therefore could undermine or compromise the exclusive jurisdiction of section 269.1 with respect to state torture.
Mr. Fragiskatos has put forward an amendment that basically replicates section 269.1 in non-state circumstances. I still am not fully clear as to how that undercuts Canada's international obligations or the Convention against Torture to simply apply the same test, the same standard, but to expand it to non-state circumstances.
I do understand your point about the appropriateness of that test or the problems with that test in non-state circumstances, but just from the standpoint of undercutting or compromising our commitment to the UN Convention against Torture, I'm still a little unclear. Perhaps you could elaborate.