Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Again, in the exceptions it says clearly:
Section 6 does not prohibit a person, in the course of military cooperation or combined military operations involving Canada and a state that is not a party to the Convention, from (a) aiding, abetting or counselling another person to commit any act referred to in paragraphs 6(a) to (d), if it would not be an offence for that other person to commit that act
In other words, what we're doing here is saying that it is acceptable for a Canadian soldier to aid, abet, and counsel another person to conceivably make use of cluster munitions. We have difficulty with that because this goes into the territory of being viewed as encouraging the use of cluster munitions by a Canadian soldier. So it's for that reason that we would like to delete paragraph 11(3)(a).