Mr. Speaker, I really disagree with the fundamental premise of the hon. member's question.
We are not doing the Americans a favour. We are contributing to the United Nations. We are contributing to the democratic development in Haiti. We are helping a poor country that was under a dictatorship for many years to regain the opportunity for its people to choose their own lives, to have economic development. That is what we are in there for, not to do people favours.
Unlike the Reform critic for foreign affairs, I think that much more to the point is the comment made in debate on Wednesday night by his colleague, the member for Swift Current-Maple Creek, when he said: "Besides being in our national interest, there is a certain moral imperative for our continued presence in that unhappy country to preserve life and to provide humanitarian assistance".
That is the real spirit of what we have done. It was expressed by the member from Swift Current.