Mr. Speaker, it is not accurate to say that there were no Reformers there. It just has not been advertised. There were some, and some pretty high profile ones.
Besides that, the member mentioned the old countries. This is what distinguishes this country from other countries and why I am so grateful that my grandparents chose this as their country. In those other countries people are punished if they do not fly the flag. Does that make them patriotic or right? No. I could even ask the question: Does the distribution of free flags around the country, causing people to wave them who otherwise were not doing it, make them patriotic? I think not. The difference is that in this country and in this place we are punished if we do fly the flag.
My comment would simply be that the sequence is most important. I believe, for myself and probably for most Canadians, that we should fly the flag because we are patriotic rather than thinking that we will become patriotic by flying the flag. There is a huge difference there.