My friend the duck hunter, Mr. Speaker.
I am glad he brought up Guelph because we will turn attention to the Guelph campaign and the member for Labrador, the minister, who yesterday refused to say why he hired a key Guelph operative to work in his office and refused to explain why he was now the director of parliamentary affairs.
Yesterday we found out the Conservatives said that they were glad that the minister had been hiding out in his riding rather than doing his job across Canada.
I have a simple question for this minister. Was the hiring of Guelph operative Chris Crawford a political payoff to keep him out of the limelight in the office of what the Conservatives hoped was the most quiet minister on the Hill?