Staying in practice for opposition is very good and criticizing is good, but by the same token, I think it's important to move forward. I can say that in the last Parliament, as vice-chair of the public accounts committee, I spent a great deal of time trying to improve the power of committees. I'm disturbed at any level when committees are essentially either ignored or brushed aside and it's said that their decision is not important and we're going to walk away.
On June 20th, 2006. See this statement in context.