Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has made a disastrous decision in deciding to appoint Jean-Louis Roux as Quebec's lieutenant-governor. We have just learned that not only did Mr. Roux proudly wear the swastika in the second world war, but that he also engaged in anti-Semitic behaviour by vandalizing businesses belonging to members of Montreal's Jewish community. These troubling revelations have just been made by the lieutenant-governor himself to a journalist writing for L'Actualité .
My question is for the Prime Minister. When he appointed Jean-Louis Roux to this position, because it was the Prime Minister who appointed him, was he aware of Mr. Roux's openly anti-Semitic behaviour?