Mr. Speaker, this brings up a very important point. I think the member asked three things. I believe people are not well informed about the Balkans. I must admit it has taken me six years of concentrated effort and a lot of talking with ambassadors from the various areas and the people involved, including the Russian ambassador, to understand the complexity of the issue.
We owe the Canadian public this information. That is why the House should be full with 301 members and why we should have a debate. A take note debate should be an information session. Then people intelligently know the views rather than get them through the filter of the media.
Do I think the 18 days of bombing have had an effect? I believe it is starting to. Tomorrow the G-8 is conducting negotiations. The G-8, with Russia as a member, is involved. The OSCE with 55 countries is also in full negotiation. Russia is a member of that. I believe getting Russia into that international peace force will allow both sides to step back and let negotiation work. The combination of bombing and that can probably stop this thing. That is how I see it happening.
Do I know that it will work? Obviously not, but at least there is a plan that I can understand. The meetings of the G-8 tomorrow in Bonn are extremely important. They might put on additional pressure. It will not be a NATO mission any more, which would make me happy. It will then become a much broader base. It further points out how the UN is not able to handle this sort of thing.
The hon. member also asked about refugees. Obviously Canada has a role in that regard as well. For a long time we have accepted true refugees. At this point the main thing we should do in this crisis situation is make sure they are well taken care of where they are, as best we can deliver. There are now 80 flights a day into Macedonia and 60 flights a day into Albania carrying relief effort. That has solved the problem literally in the very short term.
I believe we are taking care of that. NATO is doing a great job in that area. Ultimately let us find out who wants to go back and who wants to become a refugee. Then we will solve that problem in due course.