Mr. Speaker, let us be clear. I put my question to the Prime Minister, not to the Minister of National Defence, who is contradicting his leader.
When he phoned me on the eve of responding to Norad and the United States, he told me this had nothing to do with Canada's participation in the missile shield program, that the Norad agreement was in no way connected to the missile shield. We can see that it is the opposite now.
I know the Prime Minister likes to spend lots of time hesitating, but will he answer and confirm that this is indeed what he told me and that, in fact, the opposite is happening?