Sure, that's fair, it's true that our government looks the other way when realpolitik dictates it should do so. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are neither allies nor friends to Canada, nor should they be, and it isn't right that they get off the hook.

That said, if this is framed as criticism of the Magnitsky law then that is the two wrongs fallacy. Targeting individual sanctions at human rights abusers is a good thing, even if not all people who deserve to be on the list are actually there.