No, and I'm not calling you a conservative either.
There is some good, but not perfection, in what others have done before. A neo-conservative, on the other hand, it seems to me, likes to wipe the slate clean and start all over. A neo-conservative is not particularly interested in what might have been good in what others have done before and is not interested in studying what has come before.
My question for the minister is this. Why did her government cut both mitigation programs and adaptation programs created by the previous government without a proper review of these programs? As a matter of fact, I believe she admitted, when she was before another committee, in an exchange with Senator Grant Mitchell, that there has never been a comprehensive audit or review of climate change programs. Why, then, would she cut programs like EnerGuide or the Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network, which was doing valuable work in the area of how we can adapt to protect our freshwater resources from the effects of climate change, without really knowing if there was anything good in those programs? Both were very popular, especially EnerGuide. Was that an ideological decision? Was that a neo-conservative decision? It obviously wasn't a conservative decision.