First of all, sir, I would never ever question you or any of your colleagues or anyone in this House about their morality or ethics towards veterans and their families. I think each and every single one of my colleagues, and I've been here for the last twelve and a half years, hold our military and our RCMP in the highest of regard. I say that for you and for everyone else as well.
Sir, you know as well as I do, those are confidence measures, and what you're asking a New Democrat, who sits, by the way, in the last seat in the House of Commons, is whether I have confidence in the Prime Minister and in my colleagues in the Conservative Party. The answer is no. That's why we voted against it.
There are literally thousands of items in an estimate or a budget, as you would know, sir. It's the simplest thing in the world to take two or three things out. Now is everything that government does bad? No. Is everything in a budget bad? No. But in opposition, as I would say the Conservative Party has done and the Reform Party...I remember many times the Conservative Party voted against things inside a Liberal budget that had increases to the defence department and increases to the veterans as well. Nobody questioned why you voted against those things. You voted against them because they were a budgetary confidence item against the government of the day.
That's why, sir, I voted against those items.