Mr. Speaker, at the start of the week, I congratulated the government on its attitude. However, there is one point on which we do not agree.
When the government tells us that there is consultation, that consultation took a different form in 1991 when it was in opposition and demanded a vote. There was a vote before Operation Desert Storm, at the request of the Liberal Party, which was then in opposition.
In the case of Kosovo, this same party, now in power, refused to hold a vote in the House.
This time, in the name of democracy, and in order to strengthen the Prime Minister's position in his discussions with his allies and with President Bush, I ask that a vote be held, as was done before the gulf war, at the request of this same party and this same leader.