Let's get back to ministerial accountability, then. Under oath here, the Minister of Public Works and Government Services, according to Mr. Togneri, had given him informal authority to do what the Prime Minister's chief of staff told our committee repeatedly—in fact he said so nine times—was strictly forbidden.
So my question again is, given that there was no authority under the act for exempt staff to do these types of things, do we in fact have a situation here where a minister has not taken responsibility for what they're saying he has responsibility for?