Mr. Speaker, the member has spoken with his usual precision and has left me wondering exactly what he might have been asking me.
I can certainly understand why he does not want to talk about battles fought and lost. I thought the Liberals won the election in 1993. They won it on the basis presumably that Canadians liked some of the positions they had taken prior to 1993. This is another case of self-inflicted powerlessness. Even when the Liberals won the election, they thought they had lost, unless of course the member is referring to the fact that we lost. We all lost. Everyone who thought the Liberals were telling the truth prior to 1993 lost. In that sense we did not lose because we never believed them in the first place. We knew that there was a convergence behind closed doors on Bay Street and other places between the Liberal and Conservative Parties.
If I were the member from Eglinton-Toronto or Toronto-Eglinton, at least I got the words right, it would not take much for the rest of us in Canada to know more about Toronto than the member from Toronto knows about the rest of us. He cannot even get Edmonton and Winnipeg straight for heaven's sake. It is all just west of the Ontario border as far as he is concerned.