Madam Speaker, what I would like to do is address the reason we are doing this, why this is being forced. Apparently, we are having a vote tonight, from what the member said. Maybe he has let out something he should not have. We are here because members of the Liberal government and the Bloc are afraid to go into the summer and have to defend their position on this issue. They have received the same amount of mail that we have. They know full well that pressure is going to come to bear on them. They are counting on passing this legislation, forcing it through, and then counting on Canadians losing interest in this issue. They have fundamentally misread Canadians on this issue. Although they have tried to disenfranchise more than half of the Canadian population on this issue, they are not going to be successful. People will remember this and they will pay those members back at election time.
In the House of Commons on June 27th, 2005. See this statement in context.