Mr. Speaker, yesterday was Mother's Day. Sons and daughters everywhere reaffirmed their love for their moms, whose love for their children knows no bounds-not distance, not time, not even death.
The bond that exists between mother and child is stronger than the strongest steel, harder than the hardest wood, and more enduring than any other bond of love.
Today I speak of those children who, because of war, have lost their mothers or whose mothers or families can no longer provide for them. I refer to the children of Bosnia.
I urge each of us in the House to do everything we can and ask the government to act quickly to provide a safe haven for these orphans of war.
Let Parliament lead in easing their pain, their hunger, their illness, their injury and their imminent death, even as we intensity our efforts to search for peace in that part of the world. Let Canada be a mother to the children of Bosnia orphaned by war.