While I share your assessment that Maxime Bernier was a poor choice to be foreign affairs minister, I disagree that he "performed unremarkably" as Industry Minister (The Wrong Man For The Job - editorial, May 27).
In terms of what is perhaps the single most important component of the Industry portfolio, telecommunications, he was, without challenge, the best Industry Minister in 30 years. Before his time, ministers, Liberal and Conservative, constantly complained that the CRTC had usurped their rightful policy role but did nothing to correct the relationship. In less than one year as minister, in the face of opposition from his departmental bureaucrats, the CRTC and, indeed, the Privy Council Office and the PMO, Mr. Bernier single-handedly fundamentally reshaped the nature of the telecommunications regulatory system to emphasize a consumer-driven, not a regulatory-driven, industry.