Mr. Speaker, we all know there was no request to do this. The Prime Minister just blurted it out. We know that.
Yesterday a spokesman for the government said the Prime Minister said one thing and then another spokesperson said the Prime Minister said something else. Then a cabinet minister said “this is the position” and that was at variance with what the Prime Minister was reported to have said.
Would someone on the other side please stand up and simply admit to being the author of this confusion, or just explain what the foreign policy position is on inviting people like this into the country? Could someone just simply explain it? These are matters of life and death in some cases.