Last week, incumbent Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca federal Liberal candidate Keith Martin accused his competitors of "misleading people" by suggesting this would be his last election. This, despite telling the National Post's Julie Smyth in May that, "Unless the system changes, unless it becomes more efficient and productive, if it continues in this death spiral, this will be my last election." So yesterday, on Public Eye Radio, we asked Mr. Martin to explain his earlier statement to Ms. Jiles. The response: "I was being provocative. I was being provocative, basically, to get this issue to the forefront by making such a statement, by challenging the status quo - because it was a provocative statement. And if I did not make that provocative statement, this issue would have never come to the forefront and (wouldn't) have been able to put these articles forward."

"Unfortunately, in our system, as you know - Al Gore had a pithy little one liner - 'If it bleeds it leads, if it stinks it sinks.'" So 99 percent of the stuff I put forward never gets to the public. And I believe these are really important issues. So we have to find new ways to move things forward. So while I have 20 times the number of things published or national hits or a wide-variety of issues then any other member of parliament who is not a cabinet minister and pushing ideas, we've got to be innovative. And I need a hook to get you guys engaged. And that was a hook to be able to get the idea forward. And it was successful in getting the idea forward in front of the public so that they're aware of what's going on and some of the solutions I believe can be used to modernize our parliament, to reform our parliament and to be able to enable parliament to be able to serve the public."

But, given the unlikelyhood of those solutions being introduced, does that mean this will be your last election? ""No, I hope I have the honour of serving my constituents in Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca again as a member of parliament. No, I have no intention of going anywhere at all unless the people decide otherwise. I'm keen on fighting for the issues on healthcare, on jobs, on the economy and a lot of the local issues we have on transportation. And we've got a lot of exciting projects we're implementing for kids and Canadian Forces families and others. So, unless the people turf me out, I have no plans on moving anywhere at all."

So did you mispeak in your interview with Ms. Smyth? "I was putting forward a sentiment that was utilitized, quite frankly, to draw attention to a much larger problem. And it really spoke to the moment in time where I was quite angry about the system and quite frustrated about the system. Because I speak to my constituents back home. You see the issues that they have to deal with. And you see the inaction in parliament. And it just makes me angry to my core...I didn't word that well. In some ways, I worded it well because I was able to say something that enabled the issue to come forward."