Mr. Speaker, it was very important that 3,000 Canadians were there to help stiffen the backbone of the government to provide some input on human rights issues.
Over 90 trade union leaders in Colombia alone have been murdered in the past year. Assurances were given that the human rights agenda was the one that would predominate, and yet, in his only speech to delegates, the Prime Minister went on at considerable length about trade and the free trade agreement of the Americas and all but ignored human rights.
My question for the government is why?