Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the NDP I would urge the government to do everything it can on the security council and within NATO to make sure that this latest development turns out the way we all want it to turn out.
I have a question on a different subject. Yesterday, in Washington, the Canadian ambassador to the United States floated the idea of a customs union between Canada and the United States and also talked about a more intense codification of the relationship between Canada and the United States.
Was the ambassador speaking for the Canadian government when he floated this idea? If he was not, why was he floating the idea in the first place?