Mr. Speaker, while I accept part of the premise of the member's question that Canada needs to maintain a fair-minded policy with respect to the Middle East, I cannot accept that Canada did other than to maintain that position last week. I suspect that is why Israeli Foreign Minister Perez thanked me for Canada's position when I met him in Bucharest last Tuesday.
In the House of Commons on December 10th, 2001. See this statement in context.