Mr. Speaker, the hon. member mentioned Mr. Earl Turcotte a couple of times tonight. I wonder if he is aware that Mr. Turcotte was a negotiator for Canada at the cluster munitions convention. In fact, he attended all three meetings of the convention negotiations and was very intimately involved in the negotiation of article 21, with which apparently he now disagrees.
Could the member tell us if he understands that Mr. Turcotte was involved with those negotiations, specifically with negotiation on article 21, and did not object to it at the time when he was involved in the negotiations, and that Canada is simply implementing now the convention that he in fact negotiated on behalf of Canada?