Thank you.
Let me try to summarize.
It seems that after a year in office, and in spite of the Conservative campaigning on accountability, we now have no greater accountability in appointments. Our party joined with others to make stronger accountability laws that are now being ignored. Worse, the government is explicitly appointing only people who agree with them, thereby politicizing appointments.
We have a secretariat that spent half a million dollars. There are reports of travel not related to the secretariat, to Tuktoyaktuk and other places. By all accounts we have a secretariat where the lights are on but no one's home.
Mr. Harrison, are Canadians being well served by the secretariat you led and by this government's appointments process in general?