Peter Van Loan at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On June 7th, 2006. See this statement in context.

June 7th, 2006 / 4 p.m.

Conservative

Peter Van Loan Conservative York—Simcoe, ON

That was a lot faster than you said it would be, but I thank you for that.

The role of the UN might, in the first instance, be more controversial, and we talk about Iraq and so on. Once the so-called flashpoint of the conflict is past, the United Nations perhaps could be more active in stepping into places like that. We saw that in Yugoslavia, if I'm correct, but not in Iraq. In fact, in Iraq there was a tentative effort, and then they pulled out. What does that say about the United Nations?

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