Mr. Speaker, to be perfectly clear on this, the lists of names submitted for the position of census commissioner have come from a number of sources.
With respect to the Liberal Party, of 2,199 names referred for census commissioner across the country, only 569 were actually recommended, fewer positions than there are. Obviously names come in from a variety of other sources in order that the census is well performed.
Certainly political sources have been used in order to obtain names of people for testing. Those sources have been, in each riding, first of all suggested by the member of Parliament of whichever party. The success rate for all parties is well below half, including overall the governing party.
There is also a recruiting process to select census representatives. There are over 35,000 of these people being hired to work on the census across Canada. They will be subject to testing. If the member has any names that he would like to submit for those positions, I would be happy to receive them and we will see that they are in.