Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to confirm that Cabinet this morning consented to a request from the Secretary General of the United Nations to send a communications unit of 350 Canadian soldiers to join a United Nations peacekeeping force in Rwanda as quickly as possible.
Obviously, we hope the Secretary General will be able to put together a fairly large force of 3,000, 4,000 or even 5,000 troops in order to restore peace in Rwanda. I can also assure the member that Canada, which has already provided over $4 million in humanitarian assistance, is poised, along with other countries, to increase its humanitarian assistance to Rwanda as quickly as possible after a ceasefire takes hold.