Mr. Speaker, the Liberal government ministers say they cannot possibly meddle in the Canada Post decision to jack up stamp rates and mailing rates.The fact is they have been meddling in Canada Post for years. They have turned it into patronage heaven over there.
They have dumped so many Liberal appointees, friends, flacks, hacks and family members onto that corporation that they have had to set up a special hiring unit at a cost of almost $3 million to deal with all the patronage. No wonder they have to raise the stamp rate. Pork-barrel politics are expensive.
How many of André Ouellet's family members are still employed in Canada Post?