Mr. Speaker, Canadian foreign policy must be built on Canadian interests and it is not in Canada's interests to allow Saddam Hussein to develop weapons of mass destruction.
Three years ago Canada participated in military action to enforce the United Nations security council resolution which demanded Iraq to comply with weapons inspections, but Iraq has not.
Today the government seems to be backtracking on our commitment to work with our allies to eliminate this threat.
What evidence does the government have that Iraq is less of a threat today than it was in 1998?