Mr. Speaker, after a year in power, the Liberal government has soon made a name for itself with the many cases of patronage and political appointments based on favoritism. Everyone remembers that the Liberals promised in the red book to reform the parliamentary system on a non-partisan basis once they were in power.
Instead of initiating such a reform, the Liberal government has just continued the same abuses as the previous government. This flagrant lack of ethics and of openness, despite the Liberals' own commitments, is fraught with consequences. It shows beyond any doubt that the Liberal Party of Canada, far from renewing the Canadian parliamentary system, is shamelessly immersed in the same arrogant attitude and even beating the records for patronage which they strongly condemned when they were in opposition.
Since the Canadian system cannot be reformed, that is another reason for Quebec to break away from it as soon as possible.