Mr. Speaker, I listened intently to my colleague from Skeena in this debate. He raised the very important issue of making sure elections are conducted in a proper and fair manner.
Canadian people have a proud tradition of fair elections in our democratic process to elect members of parliament, members of legislatures and members of councils across Canada. We also travel to other countries throughout the world, countries such as the newly emerging democracies of eastern Europe and third world countries, to help them in the democratic process and to try to guarantee some kind of fair process. At the same time we see that the Canada elections process is not applied to things like the Canadian Wheat Board ballots or in areas like the land claims my colleague has spoken about.
Does it not seem contradictory to be going around the world telling people how to conduct elections when we are not doing it fairly at home?