Mr. Speaker, I understand that the government is surrounded by advisers, that the Prime Minister and his Minister of Foreign Affairs have the opportunity to talk with their counterparts in other countries, that they are well informed, and so on, but very complex questions are being raised.
Many people in Canada and Quebec are asking themselves whether we should keep sending troops over there, whether changes should be made to the peacekeepers' current mandate, and if so, what those changes should be. Will they continue to stand helplessly by and fall victim to the events? If we maintain a military presence over there, why, and on what conditions, will we do so?
In other words, Parliament must be consulted on this. In this context, can the Prime Minister tell us whether he will approve the opposition's request that an emergency debate be held today
on the safety of the peacekeepers in Bosnia and the mandate of UN forces?