Mr. Speaker, it is amazing how things change. A year ago the former cabinet minister was undermining national cultural institutions.
Given that the general public is fed up with making millionaires of defeated politicians and then watching them being appointed to federal boards and agencies, and given the government's hypocritical stance on patronage appointments to date, will the Prime Minister undertake to restore integrity, as he promised in the red book, to the appointment process by removing his exclusive franchise on the selection process and creating a non-partisan board to make these appointments, of course with his final approval?