I know it constitutes perhaps cruel and unusual punishment to have to, but I did.
The hon. member said this government had changed the rules on capital punishment. I ask her to reflect and to set the record straight. She is an honest person who is interested in the truth. She will recall that the last time capital punishment was imposed in Canada was under Mr. Diefenbaker. He abolished it at that time, commuting every sentence. No government after that ever imposed it.
A free vote of Parliament under a previous government abolished capital punishment. In the last Parliament there was another free vote initiated by the then Conservative government that resulted in the reiterating of the end of capital punishment.
Would the hon. member not recognize that what I said now is true and that what she said prior was not?