Auditioning for opposition

Without looking, what parties would you expect to be the questioner and the subject in the following statement?:

However, ____________ has not answered any of the questions being asked by Quebec voters.

Who paid for this trip to Washington? Which members of congress did they meet and what party do they belong to? What did they talk to them about? Did they merely cross paths or did they have real meetings? What kinds of documents did they give to the members of congress?

All those who guessed that the speaker was a Con MP (Daniel Petit) trying to pretend that he's in opposition to a Bloc government, give yourselves a pat on the back.

Of course, the Cons would never deign to answer similar questions from other parties when they involve formal state-to-state dealings which might actually affect Canada's standing in the world. But when it comes to trying to distract attention from their own failings, they're apparently quite eager to start taking on an opposition role. With just one problem in Petit's case - as there wouldn't figure to be many election results putting the Cons in opposition which would involve him still getting to play the part.

Edit: fixed wording.