Mr. Speaker, the government does not intend to tell us about the plan until after the fact. It does not want to debate the plan in the House.
The Minister of National Defence gave parliament the salute in classic Trudeau style yesterday when he said that he did not think it was necessary to hold a full parliamentary debate over the deployment of troops to Kosovo.
Canada is not a dictatorship. There should be an open and frank discussion about it before the decision is made. I ask again—