It's something that even I, personally, do not feel completely comfortable with—sharing my own personal experience and thoughts, knowing that the PROC committee meeting here is public and is viewable by anybody with an Internet link. Therefore, I will just recount my observations during the election time.
There were seniors groups that Alice Wong and I, both Richmond MPs, organized to meet up with during the election time, because we sensed that we had seen some of these attacks happening to us. We thought we would be able to sit down with the seniors groups to clear their minds of some of the misunderstandings. We spent about two or three hours with a group of a dozen and a half. These were leaders in the seniors groups and were mainly mainland Chinese.
At the end of it, they cried. They had been worried about their kids—their children and their grandchildren—being discriminated against by Kenny Chiu and the Conservatives and their policies, and we cleared the air. We told them none of that was true. They were reassured. They all left happy. Some of them even carried some of the snacks that we provided.
In only 24 or 48 hours, I can't remember, I started to see the same group of seniors show up at my opponent's campaign office and cheer for that person. They had no idea who he was, were not able to communicate with him and also did not support him. I know that for a fact from many of the policies my opponent's party has espoused.
To me, that was a huge flip. One of the leaders in the seniors groups had gone incommunicado. He did not answer my calls. He would not answer my phone calls, my text messages, or anything. He just completely detached from me.