Reality checks on the outrage over Prime Minister Harper's appointments

To the Liberals and NDPers who now demand Minister Emerson to resign and run again in another election, does it mean that the Liberal Party and the NDP favour "recalling" Members of Parliament which was a previous policy of the now-no-more Reform Party. To the Liberals who "wanted their money back" to the amount of over $90 000 spent on Minister Emerson's Liberal reelection campaign, the Liberal district association will get refunds from Elections Canada. Any candidate who achieve ten or more percent of the total vote in a district will get refunds. To the Liberals who criticized Minister Fortier's appointment to the Senate, well, Prime Minister Trudeau appointed western Senators to be cabinet ministers, too, as sports minister, agriculture minister, etc. Oh, by the way, reactions from the Quebec press and Montreal's business community were positive. To commentators who criticized Minister O'Connor's appointment to head the Defence Department, it's the cabinet which decides on purchases of capital equipment, and really, the defence bureaucracy is the one which make the rules on procurement. Granted, a person does not need a salary, stocks or compensation to have material gain. But, come on, the man deceased to be a lobbyist when he was elected to Parliament two years ago.