Any time the federal government hands out one of the many grace-and-favour appointments it has in its storehouse of vote-attracting enticements, you have to think the job interview goes something like this:

Q: Do you speak any of the official languages?

A: Yes.

Q: Have either you or your relatives, or people similar to you or your relatives, driven other people off their land, knowingly or unknowingly, even in previous centuries?