Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my Bloc Québécois colleague, particularly for reading his wonderful poem.
I agree with my colleague's position for the simple reason that a child is a child. He was a 15-year-old child living in a country like Pakistan.
In Pakistan, there is a hierarchy that gives parents the right to determine whether their children live or die. We do things differently in Canada, North America and Europe.
In many cases, children may commit terrible acts simply because they are obeying their parents. That is why we have the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and that is why Canada supports the protocol and why the government should too.