Mr. Goose: Many are surprised and shocked that Canada, which played such a leadership role on land mines and indeed has played a very important leadership role in the first few years of the existence of the convention on cluster munitions, has now put forward draft legislation that seems to be directly at odds with the letter and spirit of the convention, and we hope that that can be remedied.
M. Goose : Beaucoup s'étonnent que le Canada, qui a assumé un tel leadership dans le dossier des mines terrestres et qui, effectivement, a joué un rôle très important pendant les premières années de la Convention sur les armes à sous- munitions, propose maintenant une loi qui semble contredire l'esprit et la lettre de cette convention.