Mr. Speaker, I enjoyed the member's speech, especially following on the speech of the member for Surrey—Newton, who said that we were finally seeing a return to Canada's type of international engagement. I think that is offensive to anyone who has followed Canada's military history. We were involved in the fight in World War I, in World War II, and in Korea.
In Afghanistan, there seems to be this whitewashing of the combat mission in which Canadian troops proudly participated and 158 of our men and women in uniform died in combat.
I wonder if the member might just expand upon some of the remarks he made, that this government motion does not take us back to Canada's type of international engagement; in fact, that Canada has had a proud reputation of taking the fight to those who need to have the fight taken to them.