Mr. Speaker, for the moment all that can be done is to protect those refugees who are outside Kosovo. This will take as long as it takes. What is important at the moment is for these people to have food, basic care, everything they need to survive.
It is up to developed countries to send them what they need, to send money and whatever is required to ensure their survival.
Has a time limit ever been put a war or a dispute between countries? Must a limit be set, whereby people can remain in one place for six months, and then will be sent elsewhere? These people do not want to leave their region, they want to stay there. Their culture is there. Their country is there. They are just waiting to be able to get back to it. Let us try to settle the situation as soon as possible, so that they can get back to Kosovo and finally find happiness in their country.
They are not going to find happiness by being taken to other countries continents away. I would not want to compare the present crisis with what is going on in Palestine. Every crisis has its own history. Every war, every movement has its own history, in its own time. They cannot be compared.
Canada and all of the developed countries have a duty to send aid to these people in Albania and Macedonia as promptly as possible, particularly since we know that those countries do not have the resources to be able to help them.
Let us do our duty, then, and let the government send the necessary funds and aid to these countries.