I would actually like us to talk about ministerial responsibility. As I understand it, this principle implies that, before the House, and even before the public at large, ministers are accountable for the management of their offices. They are responsible.
But am I to understand that they are the only ones who have this obligation? In other words, the House could not hold anyone else accountable except the minister.
I also understand that a House committee would not be able to review, with other witnesses or with other documents, the position taken by the minister.
Is that actually the case?