Mr. Speaker, of course, I listened carefully. It was difficult not to hear the passionate comments made by the hon. member who spoke before me about an issue that undoubtedly affects him and which he feels passionately about.
But I think it is rather interesting that this same member, pointed first at the government benches instead of using the opportunity to talk with his seven colleagues who were in the Tory government in the last Parliament.
It seems to me to be rather inconsistent for this member to be pointing a finger at this side of the House when he has not taken the first step, a logical step, a rational step, to ask members of his own caucus who were part and parcel of that problem in the early 1990s when several of those members, including the former leader of his party, were at the front bench of the government that made that decision.
When will the hon. member start to talk to some of his Conservative cronies in his own party and maybe ask them where this process began, why they are not here asking the same questions he is now asking rather hypocritically?