Madam Speaker, let me be clear. There was no reference to Adolf Hitler. When I mentioned the word goose stepping, I said that Canada should not be quick to goose step behind one point of view without exploring other avenues of recourse to settle this international tragedy.
It should be settled in an international venue. The United Nations has been raised as the logical place to deal with this. This is not the same situation. There is no parallel in military or world history to draw from in terms of a terrorist attacking a nation state with such a degree of devastation. When we declare war, we declare war on another country, another nation state.
This is a unique situation that calls for a unique resolve. The NDP is calling for the Canadian government to find that third choice. It is not a choice of shoulder to shoulder with the United States or shoulder to shoulder with the terrorists. There is a third middle ground that we should be seeking, and I am pleased to see that in most cases our government is in fact following that voice of reason.
When I raised it in the context of losing our economic sovereignty, I used it as an example of one of the situations where we would be less able to control our own destiny and where we would be bound to rush to the aid, in an unquestionable way, of our dominant economic partner as we lost our economic sovereignty and our ability to chart our own destiny as a nation.