Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister himself said today that this issue could be raised by all NATO leaders during their discussions. So it could come up.
It is perhaps time that the government stopped giving evasive answers. We have more information about the intentions of the United States, Great Britain and Germany.
Will the Minister of Foreign Affairs admit how ridiculous Canada looks when it says that the question of sending ground troops is a hypothetical one here in parliament, while the Prime Minister himself says in a media scrum that it could come up during the Washington meeting and that it would therefore not necessarily be hypothetical?