I find it peculiar, and I say that deliberately. I think it's peculiar, but the fact that it happens from time to time and you get somebody whose views are different from the vast majority of Canadians on some issue doesn't mean that person can't be a candidate. Yes, he may not be the best candidate they could have, but that's a matter of dispute. Obviously, the members of the constituency voted.
Now, sure, that guy may have outsold the others in terms of memberships and all that stuff. That does go on. I went through one of those battles myself in 1988. But the fact is that it does happen that way. Those people are the ones who make the choice, and they're the ones who are working in the election campaign to help the person get in. To have the leader say, “This person's off; it's going to be someone else,” makes the leader, in effect, a dictator because technically the leader could fire a whole bunch of MPs at election time and say, “You're not going to be the candidate. It's going to be somebody else, and here's the certificate to prove it.”