Mr. Chair, I hope they do have an advantage so that they can prevent any future inbound missile from ever striking North America. I hope they do have an advantage. That is why I support our getting involved in this.
I had kind of hoped for better from my Bloc colleague than that type of rationale. If I understood him correctly, he was saying that because there are other threats out there, like a dirty bomb being smuggled in on a cargo ship or a cruise missile taking off from a deck of some ship just offshore, that because those are very real threats, which he is right about, that means we should not participate. Where is the logic in that? That is like saying there is a list of threats and fairly far down the list of threats is a rogue missile inbound to North America. It is still a threat.
As I said in my remarks, if anybody would have said that jet liners were going to slam into the World Trade Center before it happened, people would have said that it would be absolutely ridiculous and nobody would ever be able to orchestrate a terrorist attack like that, but it happened.
Therefore I do not think that is a valid argument against our supporting our allies in this effort.
The final point I would make, and again I agree with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is that the Americans are on their way to doing this anyway. If we want to have a voice, if we want to protect Canadian sovereignty, if we want to reinforce our opposition to weaponization of space, then let us be at the table and make sure that our voice carries some weight there. We are not going to do that if we opt out.