Mr. Speaker, I listened to the member for Kitchener—Waterloo and his rhetoric about how the Liberal Party was such a strong defender of rights. I might point out two things that will fly in the face of that assertion.
If we look at the Liberal Party in Toronto, a city that is over 50% visible minorities today, and we look at the number of seats in the city of Toronto, roughly about 21 or 22 seats, the Liberals hold all but three seats, Trinity--Spadina, Parkdale--High Park and Toronto--Danforth, yet among their members from the Toronto caucus, I count one member of a visible minority. The party likes to talk large about its record on minorities, but its record speaks otherwise.
The other thing I point out is that in the previous Liberal government, if we looked at the members of the cabinet who sat on the frontbench of that party, I did not count any visible minorities.
It is a bit rich listening to the rhetoric of the member for Kitchener—Waterloo. I propose that there is a huge gap between the member's rhetoric and reality.