Mr. Speaker, when the Prime Minister was out of office in 1990 he told Canadians “I am not interested in patronage because I'm a Liberal”. Excuse Canadians for seeing the irony in this. The Prime Minister is rapidly becoming the king of patronage appointments.
Robert Fung, his latest appointment, hired the Prime Minister to work for him when the Prime Minister was out of politics. That would be fine except that now Mr. Fung has been rewarded with an appointment to the Export Development Corporation.
Why does the Prime Minister continue to appoint his friends? Is that not patronage, appointing friends to these plum patronage positions?