I'll follow up on that issue of interfaith. In my community it was pointed out by a former minister whom I knew that we have four congregations. I thought we only had three, but he included the coffee shop as the fourth congregation. He said if he actually had his way, he felt that was congregation he would like to spend his time with.
When he said that, I recognized there was an element of truth that is often overlooked, that people, whether or not they go to church on Sunday, see Sunday as a special day. Regardless of their faith background, it is a day of rest, it's a day of choice for family. My colleagues from the Conservatives say they could choose to vote. They certainly could choose, but they often choose to create a sphere that is not impacted. I would like to get back to the reality that we are now proposing, that they would be getting their doors knocked on, that they would be phoned, that they would be called to come out and act as volunteers--because these are the people who are the volunteers for election campaigns, these are the people who work for Elections Canada.
In your experience, whether or not it is a Christian denomination or whether it's the Sunday coffee crowd or the people who go to their camp with their kids, do you feel there's a sense of a possible backlash, of a growing cynicism? I know it's hard enough knocking on doors with some people sometimes when you're a politician. I certainly wouldn't want to know what the response would be on a Sunday, when people see this as their one time alone. Do you feel there might be a cynical backlash towards politicians in general if we put out the big party machine on a Sunday?