Mr. Speaker, one of the things the hon. member said which is worth exploring is one of the things that bothers me, which is the analysis that has attended our getting into this situation. The member referred to it when he talked about the fact that the Milosevic government did not sign the Rambouillet agreement but that the KLA, the Kosovo Liberation Army did.
It seems to me that we can make too much of this. Not so much that Milosevic did not sign it. I think that is obviously something that should be taken into consideration, although there is a considerable degree of analysis which suggests that the Rambouillet agreement was designed in such a way as to make it impossible for Mr. Milosevic to sign it. But we can also overemphasize, it seems to me, the fact that the KLA did sign it, because the KLA signed it in the full knowledge that the Serbian government would not sign it. There was no price to pay for signing this agreement.
I think it is a mistake to laud the KLA for signing this peace agreement, not that I am suggesting the member did it but I have heard others do it. The KLA knew full well the other party to the talks would not sign. By signing it in the full knowledge that the others would not sign it, in effect they conscripted NATO as their air force in this conflict between themselves and the Serbian government.
I suggest to the member not by way of argument that this is one of the things that bothers me about the analysis that at one point or another we have all accepted. I am not trying to single out the member, or his party for that matter, because this was a decision that was made with a certain degree of unanimity here in parliament.
One of the elements that bothers me in the analysis we were all informed by is the overemphasis of the fact that the KLA had signed the Rambouillet agreement when the Serbs had not. In fact I have been told there was an earlier agreement which the Serbs signed and the KLA did not. It is a bit more murky than we we have made out collectively.