Bob Dechert at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On June 11th, 2012. See this statement in context.

June 11th, 2012 / 5:15 p.m.

Conservative

Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON

Thank you.

I want to raise with Ms. Holguin the whole issue of the socio-economic criteria. How would that work? Earlier my colleague Mr. Van Kesteren raised the issue of the mujahedeen in their struggle against the Soviet Union. Things just popped into my mind, like would Fidel Castro have been able to acquire the weapons necessary for the revolution in Cuba, or other places like that, with the socio-economic criteria that you're suggesting?

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