Mr. Speaker, I get upset when Liberals talk about rights. One would think they had a monopoly on rights in this country. Let us look at some facts
. In the second world war, Nazi refugees trying to flee Nazi Germany came to Canada. They were turned down by this country, sent back to Nazi Germany and ended up as Holocaust victims. Who was in government at that time? It was a Liberal government.
Who interned Japanese Canadian citizens and deprived them of their property and fundamental rights? It was the Liberals.
The only time in Canadian history that martial law has ever been imposed in this country, where our citizens had their rights suspended and people were rounded up and put into internment camps, was during the Trudeau regime. Every Liberal should know that.
I should not speak so fast because they have a tough time remembering a few of these things.
Who granted the women the right to vote in this country? Which government did that? It was a Conservative government.
Who granted aboriginal people the right to vote almost 100 years after the slaves were freed in the United States? It was a Conservative government.
Who appointed the first woman to a cabinet post in this country? It was a Conservative government.
We Conservatives need not take any lectures from that group about fundamental rights and freedoms in this country.
I think we need a charter of rights, a bill of rights, to protect Canadians against Liberals.