It depends on the members. I remember speaking with one member from Alberta, and I said over the Christmas holidays, “How many constituency events did you go to?” Some of you can probably work out who it was. He said, “None.” I stared at him and said, “I beg your pardon?” He said, “None.” He was very pleased with himself, but I'm not sure he was telling me the truth.
Anyhow, the point is that I do rate the constituency work of MPs, which in all honesty—ignoring parties, which I know I shouldn't—is the member's pipeline to the people they represent. I have never in my whole experience—which goes back more than anyone else's here, back to 1957 when I first came out to Parliament—met an MP who didn't care about his constituents. Never. That's your number one job, in my view, and parties come second. Try to tell that to your bosses.