I can tell you right now, Mr. Speaker, that probably not more than 40 or 50 members in the House can claim that they have more than 100 or 200 businessmen and women knocking on doors and doing polls or getting involved in their campaigns. They might come along and go to a fundraiser but they will not actually go out to do the real slogging.
A motion like this only discourages people from getting involved in the political process. One of the reasons it discourages people from getting involved is because we have a situation, regrettably, where because of the concentration of power-and most of the real concentration of power tends to be with the Conservative Party-quite often large corporations do not encourage their employees to get involved in the political process.
We all know what happened during the 1988 election when large corporations not only took out full page ads saying: "Vote for the free trade agreement", they also wrote letters to their employees saying: "Campaign for the free trade agreement".