Mr. Speaker, when we ask it to intervene to put a stop to the dropping of fragmentation bombs on Afghanistan, the government simply says that there are always innocent victims in wartime.
The Prime Minister heard this response frequently when he was promoting the Ottawa treaty to ban anti-personnel mines, and it has not stopped him from continuing.
Does the Prime Minister, an elder statesman, plan to use his influence fully on the international scene, as he did in the case of the Ottawa treaty to convince the coalition to stop using the fragmentation bombs?