Mr. Speaker, what we are trying to do in the House is apply the tragedy that occurred in Armenia in 1915 to what is occurring today and what will occur in the future.
I hope the purpose for this motion is not only to mourn, to commemorate and to teach all of us what occurred in the past, but to use this and other genocides such as what occurred in Europe during the Holocaust and in Cambodia during the vicious regime of Pol Pot to build for the future a constructive, formalized plan for Canada and its neighbours in the international community to prevent these events from occurring again.
As I have said before, the people who have died during the genocides in the past, their lives will have been wasted for little if we do not act today. It is incumbent on all of us to act on history by making the future a better, stronger and more peaceful future for all people.