We want to know whether the work we have been doing for the last eight years… It is hard to understand. You work hard to get elected for six months, and I know what an election is all about. When you wake up after the election, it is great if you have won, and if you have lost, you can try again the next time. But we cannot try again.
In the minute I have left, I would just like to say that I hope to live long enough, even though we spent our lives in asbestos mines, to finally see lawmakers do something to ease our misfortune, rather than… I hope that partisan politics will not enter into this. That is terrible to see, whatever the party that is responsible.
I take my hat off to all of you who are listening to us today and I only hope that we have not come all this way and worked so relentlessly for nothing. Even the unions did not help us. We have always been pretty much on our own. Jacques Beaudoin from the FARQ, who is here today--
Mr. Chairman, I will not take any more of your time. Thank you very much.
Ladies and gentlemen members of the committee, thank you. When the time comes to vote, I hope you will remember us. Vote as you see fit, but we will remember.