Mr. Speaker, it really makes a mockery of any sense of questions and answers for the member to simply give us a rote answer.
I will try again on another subject. Could the parliamentary secretary comment on the situation in Sri Lanka? The Red Cross has referred to it as a catastrophe. The United Nations has sent one of its senior officials to try to deal with the situation.
All politics aside, we face the prospect that as many as 50,000 people could be facing death as a result—