Madam Chair, the member for Mount Royal knows that is absolutely not the position Greens would take. We do believe that there can be multilateral diplomatic efforts, and we have always supported that the people of Iran deserve to be protected.
Unfortunately, the responsibility to protect doctrine was wrecked when Canada went along with bombing Libya until Libya became a failed state and we destroyed the opportunity to use responsibility to protect. It is a nascent notion in international law. We must defend it, and we should be able to use it, but only within the constraints of those things that are legal.
