text: We don't know enough about the objectives of the San Francisco consulate and the responsibilities of Mr. Sarkar in achieving those objectives to "appreciate" why his job is "somehow" worth up to double the consul general jobs of actual professional diplomats in the foreign service.
  
  This is probably because the job isn't worth twice other consul generals' jobs.  
  
  Mr. Sarkar will be overpaid not for what he can do for Canada or for what he knows but for who he knows - Trudeau, Butts and the rest of the Liberal high command.
  
  Most Canadians don't like this practice, especially if it uses money they have been coerced to supply.
  
  They like it even less when it is perpetrated by a government that criticized the previous government for such blatant patronage and piously promised to be completely different.
  
  Make no mistake - the Liberals are playing us for suckers with their arrogance, extravagance, hypocrisy, cynicism and cronyism.
  
  The Sarkar affair entails all of these irritants.