I have something to say about political prisoners in Cuba. From what I know, a political prisoner could be anybody. If you try to make a coup against the government, you fall in that category of political prisoners. I don't think we have too many political prisoners in Cuba.
What we have in Cuba is prisoners of conscience. That's quite different. We are sent to prison for what we believe, not for what we physically have done. It is because of what we believe. If we had democracy, nothing like that would happen. People wouldn't go to jail for what they believe, for their conscience, if we had democracy. We don't have democracy, obviously. That's why we're here today.
As I understood it with my English, Mr. Vosalik and Mr. Broadbent are saying, try to go across to the regime of Castro in Cuba to trade. That's what I heard. But how many years have we been trying to do that with Castro? You, not me, are dealing with a guy who will take everything for himself, for his purposes--everything, all the money for propaganda all around the world. This is a democratic country. Cuba is not, so how can this country have good relations with Cuba when Cuba is like a cancer? The government of my country is like a cancer; you are supporting a cancer because it is far away, and maybe to do business in. But think about whether the cancer one day could come here, because you are helping that cancer grow or to stay alive there.
More than talking, we have to do something concrete, like, I don't know, conditioning: “Castro, if you don't have democracy, we are not doing things with you. We're not talking to you.” Democracy is what I want, through the party that's in. I don't care if you are a communist, an anarchist; I don't care. I just want everybody to have a place in the country without being sent to jail.
The Conservatives are in power. Imagine the Conservatives trying to kill all the Liberals, or trying to put all the Liberals in jail.