Madam Speaker, I have great difficulty accepting what the hon. member has just said. He is suggesting in a rather simplistic way that the House should get back to more serious business.
This position seems very subjective to me and it suggests that the terms of engagement of the Canadian Forces in a foreign country are of no importance to the hon. member.
Our troops have been sent to a place where the situation is very problematic. Here we can see that our political leaders are unsure about our troops' terms of engagement. When they have information in their possession, they do not even take it seriously enough for the minister of defence to inform the Prime Minister that Canadian soldiers have taken prisoners of war in Afghanistan.
For the hon. member, it is not important that for a whole week no one was aware of the situation and that the government is not sure whether Canada's international commitments of have been met. The Geneva convention is not something important, in the view of the hon. member. It does not seem to be important to know how our troops will behave on the field. Furthermore, he says that we should consider other issues. He was referring to employment insurance. What a bunch of hypocrites.