Mr. Chair, the member's question has really put me on the spot.
My view is that the Canadian government, in an organized way, should make it clear that it believes that liberal democratic values create unique relationships among nations, relationships that are much more than simply transactional.
One of the most important changes the current U.S. administration has made is to reverse or nullify what I take to be the unifying principle of American postwar diplomacy; that is to say, that liberal democracies are natural allies and friends, that despite their differences on policy, there is a kind of moral unity or at least moral sympathy that brings them together which makes it—