The intention was.... This might sound a little bit naive, I guess, and maybe a little like Pollyanna. I really did come to Ottawa to make Canada and the world a little bit better. I think that there are 337 people who probably did the same. As much as it gets rancorous and difficult and there are challenging times and partisanship, I really do believe that parliamentarians by and large come to Ottawa to make the world a little bit better.
These are omnibus bills. The thing that connects them all is that they enhance the ability of Canada and Canadians, through the government, to have a positive impact on the world, whether it is calling attention to prisoners of conscience, whether it is holding accountable individuals who have committed some of the most vicious atrocities that you can imagine, whether it's stopping the broadcasting of genocidal states or whether it's stopping the funding of cluster munitions.
I had an individual talk to me about cluster munitions. Sometimes cluster munitions are really just small bombs. When they go off indiscriminately, they kill civilians. They don't always explode.
I've talked to some of the NGOs involved in cluster munitions. They look like little shiny things. I have young kids. Anyone else who has kids knows that they like little shiny things. More than one child has died as a result of unexploded cluster munitions when the child thought it was a toy or something to play with.