Mr. Chair, again, we all want democracies for every country in this world. Unfortunately, there are challenges and we need to work with these countries to to try to overcome them.
When we look at the nuclear non-proliferation agreement that was done in April 2015 between Iran and the P5+1 negotiations group, which are U.S., France, Britain, China, Russia and Germany, we realize this is a tentative agreement. It has been put in place to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
It is important for us to go into a bit of the statement. It says, under this statement of intent, that Iran has committed to the following: to reduce installed centrifuges from 19,600, with only 5,000 spinning and no advance models or further research and development; to shut down a secondary enrichment facility for at least 15 years; to reduce low enriched uranium stockpile from 10,000 kilograms to 300 kilograms for 15 years; and to remove and destroy the core of the heavy water reactor at Iraq, commit to not building another heavy water reactor for 15 years and allow inspectors from IAEA to inspect any facility any time.
When we look at that, even President of the United States, Barack Obama, has said that this deal is not based on trust, that it is based on unprecedented verification. They are taking this a step at a time.
Do the Conservatives not think we can do something as well to move a step forward in trying to assist with that democracy?