Mr. Speaker, I would be grateful if you were to allow me the two minutes I have left.
This morning, the Prime Minister expelled a Liberal senator appointed by Lester B. Pearson. I will not name him out of respect for his children. The fellow will earn $500,000 for doing nothing. This is coming out of our pockets.
In my riding, I hear about these appointments all the time. Voters turfed out Mary Clancy. Not two weeks had gone by before the Prime Minister found her a spot paying more than MPs' wages. Voters showed Francis Leblanc the door because of the treatment of the unemployed in his riding. The Minister of Human Resources Development will get him to administer the employment insurance fund. This did not—