What Ms. Biggs said in answer to my questions when she appeared here, and what this comment from a staffer from Ms. Oda seems to indicate, is that frankly this debate—however we got into it, and we can all argue as to how it happened—seems to have gotten incredibly focused on something that may not really be such a fact at all. In fact CIDA's policy has not changed, and CIDA's policy will not change. And CIDA is carrying out this initiative. This is not some initiative being carried out by the Prime Minister's Office slush fund. This is coming out of CIDA.
I agree with you, we need to continue to clear it up in a way that tries to separate out the rhetoric from the reality of what in fact is being done and being proposed. I think we all have to try to do that, from all sides of the political spectrum. We have to try to say what the heck we are actually arguing about here. If somebody says we've always done this and we're going to continue to do it, how can somebody stand up and say we're not going to fund abortion, when you already are? You may not want to, but that's what in effect is taking place.