Ouellet at Canada Post. Berger in Israel. A whole bunch of friends of the party have benefited and are still benefiting from the Liberal Party's generosity.
Since not everyone can become an ambassador, the government must find other positions to appoint good Liberal troops, who may not be as educated or as competent. They will work in collection agencies harassing their fellow citizens and clamping Denver boots on their cars. Every trade has its value, of course, but nothing is too repugnant for an appointed Liberal. He can do anything he is asked to.
The revenue agency can have them delivering pizzas if it pays. You can have people do anything you want when their only goal in life is to succeed and make money.
I wonder if members opposite have seen the famous American movie entitled The Grapes of Wrath . We are just about in the same predicament.
In those days, federal prisons in the U.S. used to be run by agencies similar to the one the Liberals want to set up. That system was abolished in 1949. I can assure you that prisoners were not pampered. They were abused, and lost all sense of dignity. They were treated like animals. They suffered from malnutrition.
The only criterion in appointing people to manage prisons was cost effectiveness. It had to be cheap. What is cheap is not a recipe for success. So many thing are cheap. But some are much too expensive. For example, cabinet ministers who come up with ill-conceived schemes such as this one. That is much too expensive.