Mr. Speaker, last week defence ministers from the United States and the major European countries met to discuss the question of ground troops in Kosovo, but not the Canadian defence minister. He was not even asked to deliver doughnuts.
Our CF-18s carry NATO payloads in the skies of Yugoslavia. We have hundreds of military personnel already involved in the conflict and we are sending 800 more. We ought to be involved in the planning.
How does the government explain Canada's complete absence from this important meeting?