Mr. Speaker, I have a comment and then a question.
It is really important that the Government of Canada and its allies ensure that allied military action does not give new life to a separatist Kurdish movement in that region of the world. People should know that there are some 10 to 15 million Kurds in eastern Turkey, some two million Kurds in northern Syria and some six million Kurds in northern Iraq. It was only just last year, March of 2013, that the Republic of Turkey negotiated a ceasefire with the paramilitary Kurdish group, the PKK, in eastern Turkey.
The conflict is at Turkey's borders today and we will be assisting the Peshmerga in northern Iraq. Therefore, it is really important that the assistance be provided in a way so as not to give rise to another separatist movement, because potentially, a civil war in Turkey would be a far bigger danger to western interests than the current situation presents.
Would the member comment on that?