I have been working with Handicap International for eight years. I have had the opportunity to meet a number of cluster munition victims. I think the Oslo treaty, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, was received by the victims as a true window of hope for the future. It is one of the first times that assistance to victims has really been discussed. That is their main concern. The eradication of those weapons was also discussed.
When we talk about victims, we must remember the circumstances. People lost their limbs, but there are also the families of people who were killed by those weapons. As a result, the communities of those victims are also victims. For them, the Convention on Cluster Munitions signed in Oslo is a window of hope. In my view, anything that might close that window, whether it be this bill or any other provision or declaration that could make us backtrack, will completely shatter all the hopes of victims, hopes raised by the convention.