Let us ask the member for Ajax—Pickering, the member for Yukon or the member for Nipissing—Timiskaming, because those ridings were let down a year ago, let down by members of Parliament who listened to their Ottawa bosses instead of the people who sent them here, and now they are gone.

They let down the environment, they let down car drivers, who are going to be forced to pay more to use vehicles which use excessive quantities of fuel, and they even let down the European car industry, which will be at risk of being overtaken by more innovative competitors.

Hon. Stephen Harper (Leader of the Opposition, CPC): Mr. Speaker, let me ask about another part of the Prime Minister's trip because not only did he let down the people of China, Tibet and Taiwan, let us take a look at Canada's own business community.

There are a number of conditions present in Bangladesh that are not present in a number of other developing countries, in as much as Bangladesh – and this, I think, is very important – has only one language and one religion and consists of only one ethnic group, which means that the ethnic conflicts we see, for example, in Africa do not exist there. Nor do religious wars. However, it also means that it would be still worse if we were to let down just such a country, precisely because Bangladesh does not have a number of the problems we see in other countries, and we should be failing the country if we were not to commit a good deal in te ...[+++]rms of aid, including development aid.

The hepatitis C victims have been let down and this minister let them down by leading the way.

Where they feel most let down, from the government down to the village level, is on the bona fides of their neighbours, particularly Pakistan.