Mr. Speaker, as members may know, my family suffered under Soviet tyranny for decades.
While Canada is a global leader on tobacco control, in fact, a founding member of the World Health Organization's framework convention on tobacco control, I am pleased to inform the House that Canada will boycott the next meeting in Moscow.
We stand with the people of Ukraine and we will offer no legitimacy to the Putin regime's actions in Ukraine when it comes to these farcical international conferences on which it tries to pull out some legitimacy. Putin's Soviet-style oppression techniques—