Mr. Chair, the answer is yes. We do have an obligation to stand by the people of Iran, as we do for all oppressed people of the world. The real question that this debate engages tonight is how to do that. I know my hon. colleague is a lawyer. We cannot justify breaking the law because we think we have a good motive. I imagine Canadian society if we invoked that in our streets. If there was a family we did not like or we disagreed with, we could take it upon ourselves to violently attack them. To use such a ridiculous example shows how absolutely, utterly absurd this is on an international level.
Once again, I commend to my colleagues the examples in this House. Tell me an example in the Middle East where violence has resulted in freedom for the people, democracy in their government and better welfare for their society. Show me where. It did not happen in Libya, it did not happen in Iraq, it did not happen in Syria and it did not happen in Afghanistan. One cannot impose democracy from the outside by force. We need to stand with the Iranian people in a peaceful way and support them with diplomacy, with economic sanctions, with help and with nuclear proliferation processes that actually work. We are working.