Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Yesterday, the minister stated in this House that Canada had, and I quote:
“The toughest export controls in arms of any country in the western world”.
If these controls are so tough, how can the minister explain that arms sales to Indonesia totalling approximately $2 billion have been authorized when Amnesty International reports that, in East Timor, a number of people have been killed under dubious circumstances by security forces?