Mr. Speaker, in the former Yugoslavia the Croatian army captures a rebel Serb enclave, Croatian Serbs then retaliate by bombing Zagreb, the Croatian capital, and Bosnian Serbs threaten to resume fighting and to ignore security council peacekeeping resolutions because they say the UN did not react strongly to the Croatian offensive.
Peace is nowhere on the horizon and there is growing danger that Canadian peacekeepers will become human shields in a full blown conflict.
My question is for the Prime Minister. What implications will this escalation of the conflict have on our peacekeepers' ability to fulfil their mandate and to deliver humanitarian aid in the former Yugoslavia?