Mr. Speaker, let us look at an example of professional services.
Here is the kind of analysis made by Mr. Mongeau for the firm Administration Leduc et Leblanc. The memo reads as follows “A review of Quebec's weeklies shows that the member for Verchères again criticized the federal government's decision to withdraw its annual contribution of $7.2 million to the Tokamak project, in Varennes”. Incidentally, these criticisms were made in the House.
Are such analyses worth $50,000, not to mention the amount of $160,000 received as legal counsel by that person, who was appointed a judge by the government during the same period?