Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, maybe the minister did not understand the question. Why has Canada decided to vote against Mr. Ken Isaacs to be the Director General of the International Organization of Migration in the upcoming election for this position in June? Why has Canada decided to vote again

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, the minister has made a decision to vote against him. I would like the minister to provide the rationale to the House on why he has chosen to vote against this particular person.

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, I will ask another way so that perhaps the minister can understand. I will make it a little more facile. Will the minister be instructing Canada to vote for Mr. Ken Isaacs to be the Director General of the International Organization for Migration?

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, could the minister tell the House if the election results are public or private? Is the ballot public or private?

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, is the ballot that is cast for the Director General of the International Organization for Migration public or private?

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, I am happy that the minister has given me the segue. The reason I am spending my time on this question is that if this candidate is not selected, the Americans have threatened to pull their funding from the International Organization for Migration, which is approximate

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, can the minister please tell the House which objective criteria he is referring to, and which candidate he feels best suits those objective criteria?

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, what are the objective criteria that the minister just mentioned, and which candidate does the minister best feel suits those criteria, given that June is about a week away?

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, it is May 24, and we are sitting in the House of Commons. I am just wondering if the minister could tell the House what the objective criteria are that he is going to be using to make a decision for this country in a very short period of time.

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, I suggest that there should be a list. What is the list of objective criteria that the minister is using to evaluate this very significant decision that could have significant implications with one of our major trading partners as we are entering into an agreement rega

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, what are the objective criteria?

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, June is next month. There are potentially hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, and we are looking at the main estimates. I am wondering if the minister has any idea whatsoever, given that he is making this decision, what the objective criteria are. One would th

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, it is May 24. This is a significant decision. The minister has chided me for saying that he is making a decision based on objective criteria, so what are they?

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, the International Organization for Migration has asked for additional funds from the government. It has not responded to an audit that was done in the last couple of years with regard to service delivery that it has provided to Canada, and that audit found there were d

Business of Supply  Mr. Chair, the minister just said that he knew what the objective criteria were. What are the objective criteria?