Mr. Speaker, tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the Euromaidan protests.
Our government continues to stand with Ukraine in the face of its current challenges, unlike the NDP.
The NDP member for Halifax is shamefully promoting on her website that “NATO schemes to use Ukraine as a battering ram and platform on which to foster major aggression against Russia.”
That statement is despicable.
Whether it takes five months or 50 years to liberate it, our government will never, ever recognize the illegal Russian occupation of any Ukrainian territory. Our Prime Minister made it clear to Mr. Putin at the G20 when he said: “...you need to get out of Ukraine.”
The people of Ukraine and Ukrainian Canadians know they can stand with us.