The applicable salary for the job was established and known in advance.

It takes a lot of nerve to apply for a job with a salary range you have no intention to accept, and won't accept unless it is almost doubled.

Unless, of course, he never applied in the first place....in which case the government has a lot of nerve appointing a political crony without competition and at almost twice the going rate for the job.

As John_ so aptly noted, Trudeau promised to do things different in Ottawa, but this looks like yet another case of more of the same.  #baitandswitch