He made a great contribution. He appointed his chauffeur to another patronage position and so on. That should not be why one gets the job. One should get the job because of one's qualifications.
These are two separate things. There is patronage, if we want to call it that. I am talking about the political positions that all political parties have to have. There are researchers, there are communicators and so on who need to be political and necessarily partisan. Why would the member think that would extend to the head of Canada Post, the head of the Atomic Energy Commission? Those are technical jobs that should be outside partisanship.
I agree with the member that there could be a really good discussion on the Canada banking system but, goodness gracious, he is a part of the government. During the review of Canadian financial institutions by all means we should study that. Why not? Let us open it up.
The member for Broadview-Greenwood knows that it is not an easy thing to get his members to agree. He could ask the parliamentary secretary who spent about a bizillion years in and among that feted swamp why he does not encourage that debate here in the House of Commons.