Mr. Speaker, what the Prime Minister just said is false, according to the parliamentary budget officer's findings last week.
Last year, while sitting on the board of governors of Carleton University, Michael Wernick said that a group of peaceful students protesting an increase in tuition fees had “no place in a lawful democratic society”, and then he likened them to “Brownshirts and Maoists”.
The Prime Minister just appointed the same Mr. Wernick to be the Clerk of the Privy Council, the highest position in Canada's civil service.
Will the Prime Minister ask his new Clerk of the Privy Council to apologize for these totally unacceptable remarks?