Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Canada for its support during a joint session of Parliament Tuesday morning.

Foothills MP John Barlow says it was quite an experience to hear Zelenskyy while the country is under siege.

"Certainly it's a little bit surreal when you're listening to the leader of one of your most important allies and certainly a country with very historic long lasting ties with Canada but to hear President Zelenskyy talk about what they're experiencing but also challenging Canada to step up and ensure we support our ally in Ukraine it was a surreal moment and not something, as an elected official, to have to experience."

"This is certainly one of those moments I will never forget, when you have a leader who's literally in the middle of a war taking time to plead his case, to thanks Canada for what we have done but certainly to ask for additional support in a number of different ways, this is certainly a moment I won't forget," says Barlow.

Zelenskyy asked Parliamentarians to think about cities like Vancouver, Edmonton, or Toronto if they were being attacked and to try to imagine what the people of Ukraine are going through on a daily and nightly basis.

"We've never had war on our soil and it's really hard for Canadians to imagine that and I think that was his plea, just try to picture if what we're experiencing in Ukraine as war in our cities and our communities and our countryside, can we imagine that in Canada and I think we have to be cognizant of that, you know Russia isn't that far away when we talk about arctic sovereignty and our eastern and western coasts, this could very well be in our own sovereign country and we have to be aware of that."

Barlow supports interim Conservative leader Candace Bergen's call to enforce no-fly zones over humanitarian corridors trying to get out of the country.

"I understand where NATO comes from here, we certainly don't want to escalate this conflict and no one wants to see another World War but this clearly shows that Vladimir Putin is a warmonger and does not care about the rule of law or international law, he's crossed lines that haven't been crossed since 1945 and he's not going to stop here. This is not just a conflict against Ukraine, it's an attack on western democracy, the rule of law, and if he's allowed to continue, where does he stop? "

Barlow says financial sanctions have had an impact but there needs to be a show of force as well.

Candace Bergen also called for Vladimir Putin to be tried in the International Criminal Court in the Hague, fast-track Ukrainian immigrants to settle in Canada, find jobs and for them to be able to return home once the war is over if they choose.