Mr. Speaker, I used Oka as just one example. That was just one of a very long list of patronage appointments. That was one example which I chose.
We want to get to the bottom of the tendering process. It was put in place to ensure that the best people could be chosen through the competitive process. It is a safeguard against patronage and ensures openness in the system. Since May there have been dozens of examples of competent people who only happen to be Liberals.
If Michel Robert was such a competent person as the Prime Minister and the minister maintains, why did he make a mockery of the tendering process itself, not that appointment? Why was he afraid to allow the contract to go through the competitive process to find the very best person for the job regardless of political stripe?