Mr. Speaker, like the Secretary of State for Latin America and Africa, I am mystified at how anybody can find fault with what is being put forward today. I cannot understand how people can fail to see it and mix in as part of the argument such narrow and parochial views such as abortion or whatever special interest group the hon. member happens to represent.
It strikes me that the hon. member for Wanuskewin has failed to recognize that the international institutions to deal with these things are inadequate. They were not adequate during Kosovo. We bumbled our way through the Balkans. The whole world, as are hon. members and guests who have visited this House recently, is calling out to leaders around the world to come together. If we are going to have the globalization of capital, we must also have the globalization of human rights, labour standards, environmental standards and the rule of law in order to enforce those newly agreed upon standards.
I do not want the hon. member to restate the arguments he has already put forward which I thought were very weak. Does the hon. member have any way to defend his position other than dredging up his family values, special interests, abortion and so on? I ask the hon. member to leave that stuff to the side and honestly try to address how to defend or criticize a concept of an international institution that is capable of dealing with the very complex issues of globalization and globalization standards.