Mr. Speaker, this tendency to flip-flop is not limited to the Minister of Finance alone. Now we have the former Minister of Health doing a mammoth flip-flop and expressing serious reservations on the appropriateness of ratifying Kyoto, when not long ago he was claiming to be extremely concerned about the health of the population.
Are we to conclude that the Minister of Industry has also been influenced by the oil lobby, since he too is a candidate for the Liberal leadership and thus vulnerable to pressure from those who are opposed to the ratification of Kyoto?