Mr. Speaker, this is nonsense. The Canadian government participated in the first conference, the only one so far, in Quebec City. We participated once. Afterwards, the Organization of American States announced that it would set up its own association of parliamentarians.
Since the purpose of COPA was to link parliamentarians to the organization of heads of state in the Americas, which will hold a conference in Quebec City, it is only normal that the government would want to be associated with its direct counterpart, the OAS. It is as simple as that.