Mr. Chairman, I feel that up to a point this question of the GPT should be related to Canada's external policy. No doubt our policy is silent on that issue, but it seems we are facing a contradiction: When Canada takes part in bilateral aid programs with other countries, that is one country to another, we know that as it did in the past and is still doing today in some cases, Canada links such aid to the respect of human rights. With regards to the GPT, since it is also a process for helping developing countries and seing that we are still in the same country, Canada, as far as I know, why is it that Canada's external policy does not force partner countries to respect human rights?
In the House of Commons on March 11th, 1994. See this statement in context.