Earlier, we reported Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca federal Liberal incumbent Keith Martin has apparently backed off of a commitment to make this his last election unless the country's political system changes. This, in an interview with CFAX 1070's Adam Stirling. And now we've obtained a tape of that interview, in which Mr. Martin tells Mr. Stirling, "It's up to public actually. The people will make that decision for me. I'm just a public servant and offering to do a job for the community. So we'll see. But I have no intention of leaving unless the public wants me to leave. And we'll see what happens in the future. As long as I'm useful to our community, then I'll stay with their blessing. But if they people don't want me or I don't feel I'm doing a good job then, for the community's sake, things will have to change."

So why then are Conservative and New Democrat candidates Troy DeSouza and Jennifer Burgis, suggesting this will be your last election, Mr. Stirling wondered? "Both the Conservative candidate and the NDP candidate are misleading people," the incumbent candidate responded. "I had written an article, an editorial piece, that got into the National Post, describing how dysfunctional politics had become. And, as I think a lot of our folks here know, I've been fighting to make parliament more functional - to make parliament a place where we can fight over solutions that are needed for our system. Parliament is so poisonous in its partisanship that, I believe, we need to aspire to something higher. We're paid by the Canadian public to do a job. We're paid to offer solutions and deal with the problems Canadians face. It is my duty and my responsibility - as it is for all elected people - to make sure that happens. So I was just telling people how the system is broken down and some of the proposals I'm fighting for to make it functional and make it useful to meet the needs of our constitutents."