Mr. Speaker, I know the Canadian Alliance purports to be a grassroots party, but I can tell you they are pretty rich roots. I cannot think of anyone in my own community who would buy tickets to a $25,000 a table dinner. It is a Bay Street dinner. It tells us something about who is controlling the priorities of that party. It tells us something about who is setting those priorities and who is in control of this new supposedly grassroots party.
In the House of Commons on September 18th, 2000. See this statement in context.