Hon. Marc Gold (Government Representative in the Senate): Canada is not complicit, and I don’t accept the premises of some of the ways in which our international judicial system is being used.

Canada — the Minister of Foreign Affairs — is in regular contact with its counterparts in the G7. Indeed, the minister has just come back from meetings with leaders in all the neighbouring Arab countries, and is working with our allies and Arab states toward enhancing the humanitarian aid, as well as working toward an arrangement whereby the hostages would be released and hostilities would cease. Canada is doing its part to provide relief to all citizens in that region.