Madam Speaker, I was absolutely not contacted by foreign diplomats.
What I can tell the member is that I made that decision of my own volition because I watched the hon. member for Carleton and I saw that he had the qualities of leadership we needed in our party. He had the qualities of leadership we needed for the prime minister of Canada. Every single day since then, as I have watched him here in the chamber, through this Parliament and on the road in southern Ontario, I see why he is the prime minister that Canadians and Canada need—