Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for the good work he does on the foreign affairs committee.
I would like him to imagine what the Canadian legislation might be like without clause 11, and ask him for a scenario that could exist where a Canadian commander was under close attack with Canadian troops and called in American support in a situation such as we had in Afghanistan and the American pilot dropped a cluster bomb.
If we did not have clause 11, would the Canadian officer be legally responsible? If he had suspected cluster munitions would be used, should he have not allowed those to be used and put his Canadian soldiers at risk? What would the legislation look like if the opposition members had their way? Could member answer those question?