Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has said that African development aid needs to be linked to democracy and the rule of law but his words need to be linked with action.
Two years ago Canadian courts awarded a Calgary firm a $90 million judgment to compensate them for a gunpoint kidnapping-robbery and a draining of company accounts by Nigerian officials in Nigeria. The convicted defendant is the Nigerian government itself. It refused to appear in court and totally ignored the ruling.
Will the Prime Minister advise the Nigerian government that it will be dropped as one of his leading partners in Africa unless it--