Speech From The Throne   regulations to control the sale of weapons. In Canada, murders and deaths due to firearms have not reached the magnitude of the American slaughter, but every year 1,400 Canadians are shot dead. Even with its flagrant flaws, our firearm control system, as opposed to the free movement

Tobacco Smuggling   led people to become smugglers, criminals and outlaws. Today, we want to ask questions such as: Who is protecting who in the government and the police force? What public servants, politicians or organizers would profit from showing such sordid tolerance? We have now reached

Cruise Missile Testing   certain kinds of armaments, and undertake such an initiative that is cruise missile testing? Is there not a potential contradiction if we were to do that? People will ask. It is important as well before we reach a final decision to consider seriously not only what parliamentarians

Cruise Missile Testing  Madam Speaker, the hon. member makes a wonderful point here. The issue of the nuclear stockpile is out there and is unresolved by the entire global community. As I understand it I think the Ukraine has reached an agreement to liquidate, store away, give away or trade away its

Cruise Missile Testing  . We cannot predict which weapon in our arsenal we are going to reach for. We could look at Vietnam. We saw the Americans bringing back C-47 aircraft and mounting Gatling guns in the open doorways. That tells us, if we look at that situation and at the gulf war, that we need

Cruise Missile Testing   by this description because weapons are supposed to be dangerous. I do not think his is a strong argument because what makes a weapon effective is its mobility, its ability to quickly reach its target, the enemy, its strike power and its invulnerability to enemy attacks. I fail to see how one can

Cruise Missile Testing  . It is not as far reaching since, as a result of disarmament initiatives and various treaties signed recently, the number of missiles is limited to 460. This is a thousand less than previously. They will be replaced as they become obsolete, but the number will never exceed 460. In that sense

Cruise Missile Testing   of 1987 between President Reagan and Secretary Gorbachev. It reached the stage where, in a work published in 1989 by me and my distinguished friend the then president of the World Court, Nagendra Singh, we posed the question whether the user of nuclear weapons was illegal per se

Mil Davie Shipyard   those facts, how can the minister explain why it is taking so much time to reach a decision?

Foreign Affairs   a humanitarian responsibility there to ensure that much needed aid reaches distressed regions. In Croatia, Canada is playing its traditional role in keeping the peace in that region. I should note with interest that all members of Parliament of Croatian origin who have spoken

Foreign Affairs   to a genuine defence of the cause of peace. I believe the mission in Bosnia should continue until negotiations are able to reach a settlement. However, it is important for our operations to contribute directly to resolving the crisis and above all to avoid perpetuating the current

Foreign Affairs  I understand, Mr. Speaker. I thank the member for a very intelligent question. It is a very far-reaching one. The world, in my estimation, is breaking up into tinier and tinier nation-states. Areas within countries are now defining themselves within the context of a certain

Foreign Affairs   the fighting. An agreement of sorts has been reached between the Serbs and the Croats over borders in Croatia and in Srebrenica, and the fighting has been contained. They also have been reasonably successful in delivering humanitarian aid which is their prime mandate, including medical

Foreign Affairs   prestige in the world was reached during the Suez crisis of 1956. As most hon. members well know Mr. Pearson won the Nobel peace prize. At that time Canada stood at the forefront of world security and peace efforts and we were a very proud nation. Our commitment to international

Foreign Affairs   and perhaps more importantly to allow these organizations through which hundreds of Canadians want to provide humanitarian relief to reach the people who need it.