Mr. Speaker, I suggest the finance minister go out and meet the people some time and he would find out what they really think. Ask the people at the Copps Coliseum what they thought when the Deputy Prime Minister was there the other day? They did not think too highly of it.
A quote from the Halifax Chronicle Herald : `Canada's trial attorneys can thank the Deputy Prime Minister for another made in Canada addition to their quiver, theI was a victim' defence''.
To the noble drunkenness defence we can now add "I was only running for Parliament". What a great defence.
Since her government's lack of integrity and contempt for Canadians is now exposed, since she has compromised herself and all parliamentarians with her loose lipped actions, why will the Deputy Prime Minister not restore trust in her government by keeping her word for once and resign?