Mr. Speaker, the Liberals do not understand that in the last election 62% of Canadians voted against them. How does the member figure that? It would be an awful lot more important if the few Liberals here would understand that what we want to talk about today is not what they are doing but what they are not doing in all regions of the country.
His question was why we would be concerned about the Liberals going to the west asking about what is alienating westerners. If it were truly a practical good exercise with the intention of finding out what alienates westerners, we would be all for it. But the fact is that this is a clandestine exercise by a committee that announces its itinerary a week after it shows up, gets absolutely no press in Winnipeg and talks behind closed doors with people. It is a fact that it is on a search for candidates for the next election. As well it bellyaches about parties opposite meeting behind closed doors. I hardly think this committee is really looking to find out why westerners are alienated. I think it is really there for other exercises, and it is not doing a very good job at that. I would encourage those committee members to try to be more realistic. If they think westerners cannot see through this they are kidding themselves.
I am sure the other opposition parties are hoping that if the committee is coming to their area it would at least notify them.