The member may say not on that issue, and perhaps he is right. The point I am making to him is that if he thinks he can get elected on that issue alone, I will tell him that he is wrong.
Instilling that kind of hatred in Canadians is not going to work. It is wrong. Does the hon. member or any of his colleagues know, for instance, that a country could not even be admitted to the European Economic Community if it had capital punishment?
Does he know, for instance, that the country with the lowest murder rate in the western world is Belgium, which has no capital punishment and has not had for decades and decades? It was probably the first European jurisdiction to be that way.
Does he know that the country with the second lowest murder rate in the western world is the Irish republic? It does not have that either. Does he know? Does he care? No, because it does not fit into that kind of hate pattern they are trying to instil in Canadians.
It is not going to work in this country because Canadians are smarter than that. They will not fall for that kind of nonsense.