Hon. Roméo Antonius Dallaire:

Honourable senators, I will not pursue that line of questioning because the matter is before the courts. However, it is rather extraordinary that we will invest all that money to try to find ways not to bring Omar Khadr home instead of using our justice system to help an ally, in their moment of need, to try to solve a complex problem.

It is interesting to note that this may be a flow of policy changes that have not been particularly well enunciated.

Recently, we saw the term ``child soldier'' eradicated from the diplomatic corps' lexicon and replaced by ``children in armed conflict.'' Does that mean that the government's policy with regard to the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which specifically talks about child soldiers, will also be eliminated from our listing of conventions? Are we taking a decision to shift away from a specific instrument of conflict in the world that we should be leading — which we used to lead — the effort to try to solve?

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