Mr. Speaker, I have an excerpt from a letter sent to me by a constituent. There is a poem in it which talks about the day the war started. I thought the poem very eloquently summarized the need for a vote in this House. It states:
The day the war started the first green shoots of spring pushed through the thick carpets of leaves into mid-afternoon sun.
The day the war started a Norfolk and Southern diesel pulled cars of immaculate pine destined for hundreds of new homes.
The day the war started couples were married at city hall, school children learned the beauty of prairies, the beauty of snow on faraway mountains.
And on that day, too far away to notice, other children learned the beauty of flames, the beauty of the planes so high in their white sky that no one aboard could notice —that no one could even hear— the roar of wind drawn into vast fields of immaculate flames that once were schools, homes, families.
Does the hon. member not feel that this is a cause which gives support to having a vote on such an important issue?