No, I don't want to continue. I want to wrap it up.
These are my final comments here. I want to quote the great, wise Ken McDonald, who appeared on CBC's Power & Politics. He said:
Everywhere I go, people come up to me and say, you know, “We're losing faith in the Liberal party”
Wiser words have never been spoken.
He added:
I think they will lose seats not just in Newfoundland, not just in Atlantic Canada, but indeed right across the country if they don't get a grasp on this the way that I think they should.... And if an election were called today, I'm not sure if the Liberal party would actually form the government.
He goes on:
The government has to put a lens on it, a rural lens, for the sake of a better world, and try and come up with a plan that's satisfactory and appealable to people who live in rural.
I think many of our members here are from smaller towns. I've been all over rural Alberta—to different parts. I have a lot of friends whose families originate from there. I'm a transplant in Canada. I'm one of those easterners who went and migrated to western Canada so we could get a job. That was why I moved. Yes, wise words.... I think we at least have someone who would be willing to vote for my subamendment.
Chair, that's my time.