Kudos

When Mr. Harper built his cabinet, he was faced with the difficult task of balancing representation, experience, and legitimacy. The latter has proven most difficult.

To ensure representation for Vancouver, and to secure the expertise of an eminently qualified Minister of International Trade, he drafted a man that ran under the Liberal banner two weeks previously.

To ensure representation in Montreal, he appointed an unelected senate member (albeit to a non-Montreal senate riding).

He's faced pretty steep criticism on both accounts. So let's give credit where credit is due. Given pretty shallow talent in Quebec/any Francophone community, and needing to appoint a representative for La Francophonie, Stevo found himself in a pickle. Does he draft talent from another party? Does he assign a francophone friend of his that has never faced the electorate? Does he build a robot with a french language chip installed? Or build a new franco Conservative out of the body parts of deceased ones?

Not Harper the democrat. Canadians wanted accountability, and that's what they'd have. Consequently, our Parlimentary Secretary for La Francophonie is an English Unilingual Albertan.

But he does plan on taking French lessons... so that's good.