Mr. Speaker, the last part of the hon. member's statement answered the question entirely.
When we want to build relationships, it is not only with a nebulous nation state, it is not only with a broad Congress and a broad Senate, it is also between two leaders who share a common set of values. We know very clearly that the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada shares strong values and strong intellectual relationships and history with these very important advisers to the new President of the United States.
It is about whether we see things in the same way. The new Democratic President of the United States, President Obama, has a view of the world, a view of his nation's state in the world, that is very similar to the Liberal view of how things should happen, where we should go and what we should do. It is not an ideological view.
This is a man who listens to what the results tell, who believes in science. The Conservative government, we know, has been absolutely ideological about all of its scientific decisions. I can only point to the safe injection site in Vancouver, as my example.