Apparently the elected conservatives didn't run Canada the unelected goons in the PMO did

Officials in Harper’s PMO orchestrated future appointments: Raitt

Controversial future appointments made before former Prime Minister Stephen Harper left power were orchestrated in the prime minister’s office with the help of Privy Council officials, says a former Conservative cabinet minister.

In an interview with iPolitics, former Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said she routinely “filled the pipeline” with candidates for posts that would be opening in coming weeks and months – in part because she wanted to increase the number of women appointed.

In the lead-up to the general election, however, officials in the prime minister’s office cherry picked a number of people in the pipeline and renewed their mandates early, well before they were due to expire.

“The pipeline was there,” Raitt explained, adding the PCO officials walked the nominations around to four ministers to sign the nominations. “All the names were there. Who chose those particular ones to be walked around was within the PMO.”

Raitt said there were other candidates she had identified and put in the pipeline in advance that weren’t appointed or renewed. She said she does not know who in PMO picked which future appointments would go ahead and which ones wouldn’t.

“I had 18 people that I wanted appointed before the writ dropped. They were ready to go. We didn’t get it done because the last cabinet meeting didn’t happen….We had the Via Rail chair ready to go. We had the Marine Atlantic Chair ready to go. I will tell you that the person I identified for Marine Atlantic was a woman and I thought it would have been great to have her as the chair.”

The chairs of both Via Rail and Marine Atlantic are now vacant.

In the end, five of the Harper government’s 49 “future appointments” were candidates in Raitt’s pipeline, including Deepak Chopra, whose mandate as president and CEO of Canada Post was renewed for five years even though it wasn’t due to expire until February.

“On Deepak Chopra, the board requested that we reappoint him and we did the walk-around on that.”

http://ipolitics.ca/2015/12/08/officials-in-harpers-pmo-orchestrated-future-appointments-raitt/