Mr. Speaker, once again the Liberals are talking the talk but will not walk the walk.
We all remember that when it came time to help the victims of hep C, the Liberals claimed to care and had widespread backbench support for compassionate assistance to victims. Yet when it came time to turn words into action, all the Liberals bent to the whip and voted against helping all Canadians suffering from this terrible disease.
More recently, when dealing with the child porn issue, many Liberals signed a letter to the Prime Minister stating their support for the use of the notwithstanding clause. However, we all saw which notwithstanding clause they chose to use, the one that states “Notwithstanding what Canadians think, we're only going to do what we're told”.
On March 16 a petition with the names of 50 Liberal members was presented at a press conference. This petition stated their objection to the government's support of a nuclear reactor in Romania. There is just one thing: not one Liberal had the courage to show up at the press conference.
Are these Liberals really principled people or simply sheep?