Thank you, Chair.
Earlier, I read a quote from your Prime Minister from November 17, 2005, that patronage “has got to stop, and when we become government, it will stop”. You just answered a moment ago, Minister, that the opposite would be to just hire only strangers. I'm having some trouble understanding, then, what you think your Prime Minister meant by that, and how much obligation you have to honour that commitment to the Canadian people.