Mr. Speaker, with bombs raining down on Afghanistan, U.S. secretary of state Colin Powell has rejected out of hand the idea of a Marshall plan, saying that a fairly modest contribution could be more than enough.
Does the Minister of Foreign Affairs intend to put forward a reconstruction and development plan that will meet the needs of Afghanis, or does he feel that, because they are poor, reconstruction efforts should be modest?
In other words, is he prepared to spend as much on reconstruction needs as he is on bombs?