Mr. Speaker, how can the Prime Minister and the Minister of National Defence say that they would respect international law when a decision was made one week before they took prisoners and when, last week, the Americans were still contradicting themselves publicly on what they would do with prisoners, whether or not they would be treated in accordance with international agreements?
How could the minister, and particularly the Prime Minister, give us assurances they did not have at the time the decision was made? The debate was public last week. How do they explain that?