I'll do the best I can. Certainly part of your question I can't necessarily answer from an official's perspective, in that it's a question that goes very much to the heart of a political decision that was made.
What I would point out is that the Director of Public Prosecutions is not initiating prosecutions in his or her own name. They're very much still acting under and on behalf of the Attorney General of Canada. So nothing is changing in terms of the actual title of the person that carries out the prosecutions on behalf of the Crown. It is still the Attorney General of Canada. It just so happens that the Director of Public Prosecutions is being separated out from the Department of Justice so that the Minister of Justice functions are not in play in terms of what the Director of Public Prosecutions is doing. It's very much a policy choice.
As you correctly identified, there are other models in this country, as well as internationally, in which the public prosecution function has been separated from the broader Department of Justice function. That simply reflects the policy choice here, which in essence is to physically as much as symbolically show that the Director of Public Prosecutions is operating independently in a separate, distinct office from the Minister of Justice, functioning within transparency safeguards.