Mr. Chairman, the honourable member—and I don't want to get into a legal argument with him—has totally jumbled up the difference that international lawyers make between the law of war and the law in war.
There's personal responsibility, under the Geneva Conventions, for individuals who do certain things under the law in war. The law of war, which governs the responsibility of countries, is a different matter--wars of aggression and so on.
So I don't accept what the member said in terms of a country's responsibility, because what he's talking about under the war crimes act, as I understand it, is a war crime of individuals, and therefore would have to be proved in a court of law that they knew or ought to have known and failed to exercise their responsibility.
But there are greater international lawyers around than I, and maybe they can help the House with that. But it is a problem.