Mr. Speaker, the problems in Iraq are increasing. Restoration of water and power supplies is happening at a snail's pace, the hospitals are paralyzed, security is still not a certainty, and what is most important, the public is becoming increasingly hostile as a result of events like the incident in Falluyah, and sees the foreign forces more and more as forces of occupation.
In offering his cooperation to the forces occupying Iraq without insisting that the UN play a central role, is the minister not at risk of having the local people associate the Canadians in Iraq—