Mr. Speaker, I wish I could be confident that this will not happen again. There is still two way traffic. These are exactly the conditions that spawned the sponsorship scandal, yet the government has not acted on this specific issue.
The public service must be apolitical. Staff cannot shift into and out of political jobs. Public servants moving to minister's staff must resign first. They must follow the same rules as rank and file public servants. Will the government commit to plugging this obvious gaping loophole that presently exists and change the present legislation?