Mr. Speaker, I, too, want to thank and commend the hon. member for Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca for his speech.
Reform members have often had a narrow view of things, but not in this case. I think the hon. member who just spoke managed to open up the debate, to talk about genocide, which is at the heart of the motion before us today. He managed to extend the debate to the broad issue of human rights.
Today's debate allowed us, I think, to address issues of vital importance for the future of humankind. There are still major issues we barely spoke about. In my car this morning, I was listening to a news report that there are now one million antipersonnel mines around the world. Given how slowly they are being removed, they said it would take 1,000 years to remove them all. What is really sad is that such mines are still being laid. I can only conclude that the work will never end.
Yesterday, there was another news report on CBC about child soldiers. In Liberia, children who are only 7, 8 or 10 years old are being asked to murder people, something the military are sometimes reluctant to do for fear of the consequences. So they send children instead. My colleague from the Reform Party also talked about a reform of the Security Council. I think this may help resolve some of the problems being debated today.
I would like to end with a question. The hon. member mentioned at one point in his comments that we could use our economic levers to intervene in conflicts. Does he not agree that, by setting a foreign policy that is totally focused on trade, the Canadian government has deprived itself of some of the levers available to it in the past?