Mr. Speaker, the minister was asking whether any Conservative members were at all in favour of the death penalty.
I have a document here that I will read slowly for the interpreters: “At the time...Canada intervened to ask that the death sentence be commuted, but was not successful.” This was in the case of Stanley Faulder, a Canadian who was executed in the United States in 1999.
However, while Canadian authorities and a delegation of members from this side of the House were making their case, a member of the Canadian Alliance, who is still a member for Calgary Northeast, went to Texas to affirm his support of the death penalty. He now sits in the Conservative caucus.
I would like to know what the member thinks about this statement, which came directly from the Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance.