I think it was absolutely reprehensible that members of Parliament, who should be held in high esteem, were out there kibitzing and mugging for photos with 18-wheelers and individuals who were honking their horns, keeping people awake at night and causing such stress in the neighbourhood. To have leading members of one political party, namely the Conservatives, going out there and posting pictures on Twitter, that's just salt to the wound to those people in our community who were putting up with so much nonsense.
As I said earlier in my comments, what happens if I went into your riding, brought a bunch of 18-wheelers, and blocked your main street in your Toronto riding and honked horns for three weeks in a row? They were just acting in such an outrageous fashion.
Any good they wanted to come out of this was lost by their boorish behaviour. They lost in the court of public opinion. People were saying, “You know what, this is not acceptable in a civil society to have this kind of behaviour.” We then had members of Parliament, who would give it some credibility by showing up, hugging and mugging with the truckers who were doing such damage to our nation's capital.
We should have great pride in our nation's capital. The way it went on, I was just disgusted by that outrageous behaviour. No one should be subjected to that kind of nonsense.