Mr. Allmand, I always like to try to find common ground with people, and I think you and I are in agreement on subsection 7(2), on the necessity to consult. I'll read it again:
All appointments to the Board shall be made after consultation by the Minister with the Leader of the Opposition and the leader of every other recognized party in the House of Commons.
So we should put on the record that Mr. Ignatieff, Mr. Duceppe, and Mr. Layton approved all of the directors who are on the board of directors. For them to be sitting there wiping their hands and saying they didn't have anything to do with it is really quite an amazing sight.
However, I do have a question for you. You seem to have a bit of a fixation with Mr. Matas. What is it? I don't quite understand. You're suggesting that Mr. Matas is a lapdog of the Prime Minister, that he's parroting the kinds of things that this evil Conservative government might be trying to propagate. Is that what you're trying to say?