Mr. Speaker, I thank the members for their kind wishes over the past week. It was very much appreciated.
My question too is for the Minister of National Defence. We are very happy that he had a nice lunch with the ambassador, but what we want to know is who was out to lunch on this whole question.
This morning we heard the ambassador to the United States designate say that Canada was already a part of missile defence. Yet we have the Prime minister, apparently speaking on behalf of Canadians, saying that we are not yet there and that we have not made a decision. They cannot both be right.
The question for the Minister of National Defence is this. Which one of them is wrong and will we get a retraction?