Mr. Speaker, if the Leader of the Opposition would like to take it up with some of my colleagues, he is welcome to do so. If he asks them he will know that additional names have been sought by Statistics Canada other than those submitted by political parties in all parts of the country. This has been necessary in order to ensure that census commissioners are those who are the best qualified.
Those who have been named have had to pass what is a rather difficult test of their skills. Very often, names submitted by the representatives or by the contact persons named by members of Parliament have been inadequate in number to fill the jobs. Therefore, they have been recruited from Canada Employment Centres, ads in newspapers and virtually any other source. They rebut them. They were all subject to the same testing procedure. If the member finds that unfair, I fail to understand it.