Glen Pearson at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On May 4th, 2010. See this statement in context.

May 4th, 2010 / 11:55 a.m.

Liberal

Glen Pearson Liberal London North Centre, ON

I just have a quick question.

Thank you for coming, the three of you. I appreciate it very much.

I have so many questions, but I will ask just the one. The Globe and Mail editorial this morning talked about the Woman Deliver conference in Washington, which is in June. There will be 3,500 experts on child and maternal health there. President Obama will probably be there. Ban Ki-moon will be there.

Canada has not yet signalled its intention to go to that. Obviously, we are leading the G8 shortly. CIDA has to be there. That commitment has to be there.

Do you know if there is any intention for us to go? Why would we not be there? What would be the reason?

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