The prime minister's problems with his upcoming appointment of a new cabinet came in for a lot of discussion this Sunday on Question Period.
Of course Prime Minister Stephen Harper himself would probably not be moaning about being able to put together his first cabinet in what is to be five uninterrupted years.
Although it is unconfirmed, the expectation is that the cabinet will be sworn in by the Governor General on Tuesday.
Tim Powers, a close adviser to the prime minister, suggests we can probably expect Harper to keep some important cabinet posts unchanged.
It is almost certain, he points out, that the finance minister will stay on in that job since the PM has put so much stock in the stability of the economy.
Kathleen Monk of the NDP and the Liberal on the strategy panel, Dan Brock, were of the same opinion about the need for Harper to find suitable Quebecers as cabinet picks. Harper lost another Quebec MP in a recount which leaves him with only five Conservative MPs from that province to pick from.
That makes Maxime Bernier almost a certainty for a cabinet post of some nature. This despite the fact Harper had to fire him in a security scandal when he served briefly as foreign minister.
In doling out cabinet positions this time around, Harper will have to find an increased number of senior spots for Ontario.
That province got him into a majority position by adding 22 new seats to the Conservative caucus. Any prime minister is always looking over his shoulder at the next election, and if Harper wants to win it he will need to hang on to those crucial Ontario seats.
In all the excitement surrounding the election campaign, Canadians had pretty much forgotten that the Canadian forces are involved in not one, but two wars.
There is a big debate both within NATO and the UN Security Council about the air war in Libya in which Canadian fighter planes are playing a vital role, doing as many as forty sorties a week.
The Security Council mandate limited the use of air power to the protection of civilians. Some of the smaller countries in the alliance are accusing NATO of so-called mission creep, that is, going beyond the UN mandate and taking the war into the Libyan capitol in an attempt to kill Ghadafi.
On Question Period, the Minister of Defence insisted Canada would not permit its air power to be used for anything but the limited mandate handed to NATO by the international body.
He insisted that killing Ghadafi is not an objective nor is there any plan to widen the choice of targets to achieve that aim. This comes despite the fact that NATO has attacked Ghadafi's bunker in Tripoli, having killed the colonel's youngest son in one such raid.
This is likely to be a hot political topic when Parliament returns at month's end.
