I'm being reminded we have many knowledgeable members of Parliament here who are very familiar with history. MP Maguire, who has an extensive background in elected office, understands and remembers those times, as well, and remembers that, not unlike his promises in 1974, Pierre Trudeau said he wouldn't oppose wage and price controls and made fun of the Tory leader Robert Stanfield by saying, “Zap, you're frozen.”. When he then got into government, unusually for a Liberal, he flipped his position and brought in wage and price controls.
He said he would not impose an 18¢-a-gallon tax or 4.5¢-a-litre tax on Canadians on gas. He said it was outrageous.
When he was brought back.... It was without a leadership convention, by the way.