Mr. Speaker, we are eager to avoid war by facing up and taking a stand, not by running, not by running from making a decision.
The government straddles the fence on Iraq and has done that so many times it has neutered our own position in the international context. We need an answer. For weeks the Prime Minister promised that the government would make a decision on the day the Blix report came out. Most other members of the international community have made a decision, one way or the other.
Why can the government not make a decision? Canadians deserve to know, our allies deserve to know, and Saddam Hussein deserves to know.