Mr. Speaker, apparently the qualifications for these political appointments are not as important as how you conducted yourself during the last election campaign. The main qualification seems to be that you had to be a worker on the defence minister's own campaign staff. Incredibly the defence minister says that is just the way it works here in Ottawa.
Will the Prime Minister do something? Will he refer this issue to the ethics counsellor? Will he ask that the defence minister pay back the $150,000? Will he discipline the defence minister in some way, or is this really the way things are done in the Chrétien government?