Mr. Speaker, our common heritage is too important, and those entrusted with it should not have to be required to be the minister's BFF.
It is not only the chair of the CBC who is required to be friends with the minister. If anyone want to apply to be chairman of the National Gallery or the National Battlefields commissioner, I guess they are going to have to “like” the minister's status too.
If the minister really wants more friends—and it is clear that he needs them—why does he not stop picking the pockets of Canadian artists?