Mr. Speaker, the first thing that is false about that preamble is her suggestion that it was a NATO meeting. It was not a NATO meeting at all. It was a regular meeting of defence ministers of the European Union. They have been going on year in and year out and nobody has ever suggested that Canada should be involved in those meetings. They are strictly for the European Union. A group of them decided to have an informal ad hoc meeting on the side with Mr. Cohen. That is all it was. It was not a decision making meeting by any means. Decisions are made at the full NATO council in Brussels and Canada is a full participant.
In the House of Commons on June 2nd, 1999. See this statement in context.