Thank you.
To my understanding, there are many people who at one time were Liberals and who are now Conservatives because of, yes, the chain of broken promises. First of all, going back many, many years, they said how they'd never bring in wage and price controls, and then they did. Then there was axing the tax. Well, the tax was never axed. There was just a full chain of broken promises about their votes against Israel at the United Nations, and not standing with our friends in the Middle East, the only democracy.
I mean, it's just a series of broken promises, a series of disappointments. It was not only I as a one-time Liberal who felt that the Liberal Party really didn't represent me, but the fact of the matter is that it was a lot of the people I spoke to. The proof is in the pudding, right? The Liberal Party at one time was considered to be Canada's governing party. It is now a mere rump in the House of Commons. It's clear that I'm not the only one who feels this way.
I would ask if Mr. Angus posed a similar question to his leader, who was once a Liberal, or if Mr. Andrews posed that question to Mr. Rae, who was once the NDP premier of Ontario. These are very similar kinds of circumstances. Those two happened to make the wrong decisions. I feel I made the right decision in becoming a Conservative, and I'm proud of it.