Collins works as a small business consultant. She ran as a National Party candidate in the 1993 federal election. In each of the 1997, 2000 & 2004 federal elections she has run for the Canadian Action Party.
MR PAUL COLLINS: In a way, to characterise Christianity as death denying is a little unfair because, after all, Christianity's primal symbol is a dead man on a cross.
MS BEV McQUAID: It's very helpful for bereaved people to be able to find a meaning in the life of the person who has died and to find their own meaning or to search for answers to that in their grieving.
MR PAUL COLLINS: Yes, I was going to say it must be quite a transition for an Argentinean to become a Buddhist.