Keith Martin on Anti-Personnel Mines Convention Implementation Act

In the House of Commons on November 24th, 1997. See this statement in context.

Anti-Personnel Mines Convention Implementation ActGovernment Orders

November 24th, 1997 / 1:30 p.m.

Reform

Keith Martin Reform Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, BC

Yes, Madam Speaker. The member for Mount Royal, perhaps unwittingly, misled this House by saying that the Reform Party did not understand what was going on outside of its borders. I did not want to bring this up during this debate but I will have her know that it was the Reform Party that in this House in 1994 started the process on land mines by presenting a private member's bill in this House calling for a ban on land mines. It was the government that refused—

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