Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Canada has taken a leading role on the world ban of land mines, most recently this week with the announcements by the Minister of National Defence of the destruction of two-thirds of Canada's stock of land mines, and by the Minister for International Cooperation of an additional $2 million to clear land mines around the world.
Has the conference in Ottawa this week given us any real progress on this issue? Is there reason to hope that the scourge of land mines may be removed from this earth?