Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Deputy Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Blair has been to Washington to make the case that reconstruction of Iraq should be led by the United Nations. Australia's foreign minister is on his way there today to make the same case. Canada has finally taken a position in favour of the UN leading reconstruction, yet the Prime Minister has cancelled the Washington trip he was scheduled to make next week.
Why is the Prime Minister not taking the case for the United Nations to Washington himself, or does the government believe that he has no credibility with the U.S. administration?