Rob Oliphant: “This will be a made-in-Canada solution to an international problem.”

That is not the principal reason we are doing this now.

We’re not going away as Canadians on the world stage. We will continue to be allies, friends with communities around the world that need support, that need friendship, that need money, that need encouragement,

Coming out of that, we’ve established a better, more sophisticated way of being in our world, creating allies that are standing with us.

Canadians have continued to ask for stronger legislation, and so this is what we’re doing.