We have a minimum of 55,000 across Canada of all backgrounds, all differences. I'm a lawyer. We have a commercial pilot. We have many homemakers. We have many immigrant women who do flock to our organization, not feminist ones. You mentioned, and I've heard a couple of times today, that only 21% of the members of the House of Commons are women. I'd like to comment on that, and my comment is that women are not stupid. We vote for individuals because of their platform, for their values. We do not vote because a person is a woman--never. And if the woman has a platform, if she has values that the people want, they vote her in. And why should we vote for a woman because she's female? That's absurd. There's nowhere that I or women of my values would ever vote for a woman simply because she's a woman. We're far too intelligent for that.
On February 7th, 2007. See this statement in context.