Mr. Speaker, because there are so many people who want to ask questions, I will try to be quick. However, because I am quite emotional about this issue, I may not be too quick.
The member said today was a sad day for him to rise in the House. Let me tell the member what a sad day was for me. It was when I walked into the House the other day and had to vote on a motion from the Liberal Party.
There is a saying that evil thrives when good men do nothing, which is so true. This place is full of good men and good women who want to see evil defeated.
I do not want anybody to forget 9/11 when the great towers came down and a number of Canadians lost their lives with thousands of others because of the evil jihad by the Taliban and al-Qaeda, which had a mission to destroy.
What I want to see happen in Afghanistan is called victory. Victory is possible as long as good men and good women do their—