Mr. Speaker, the two last answers of the member for Toronto Centre reminded me much more of Henri Bourassa than of Dean Acheson. Raging against an imperial power, it really sounded like rhetoric from times past. However, let us come back to reality. Let us come back to the present.
The member mentions 20 states. It is true that most of the members of NATO that have taken a different approach to this convention. Will the member not admit, though, that these states were not involved in combat alongside American troops in Afghanistan as recently at five, six or seven years ago? By not acknowledging the reality that Canadian troops faced, of being integrated into command structures, not of an imperial power, but of an alliance of democracies, yes, including the United States, the member for Toronto Centre, who says he is a member of the Liberal Party, which sent us to Afghanistan to be involved in combat, is contradicting the legacy and principles of his party and certainly the honour the Canadian Armed Forces that did everything in their power to fulfill the mission that his party placed on their shoulders in 2005 when they were sent into combat in Kandahar.