Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs said that a security perimeter was a simplistic idea.
In an interview given to the National Post , however, he said that Canada could not afford to be outside any future American security perimeter. For his part, Canada's ambassador to Washington says he is discussing the perimeter issue with the U.S. government. It is confusing to say the least.
While we may agree with the minister that the short term solution does not lie in this security perimeter, will he admit that the objective should be to make the continent safe without hampering trade?