Mr. Speaker, today's debate on the motion to extend the military mission in Iraq and Syria is definitely extremely important.
One important thing the previous government unfortunately failed to do was to ratify the arms trade treaty. The Conservatives did nothing on that, and I still find it hard to understand why, especially now that questions are being raised about the transparency of contracts for the sale of Canadian arms to Saudi Arabia, for example.
Would my colleague agree that it is important to ratify that agreement and have greater control over the flow of weapons?