Yes.
I think that the Clerk of the Privy Council—and we've had very good ones—has too many hats. He is the guardian of the Constitution, he's the deputy minister to the Prime Minister, he's the secretary to the cabinet and the guardian of cabinet records, and he's the head of the public service, and I believe these often come into conflict. The problem is that in that relationship of speaking truth to power, where often the role of the minister on the other side is speaking power to truth, sometimes these roles can get mixed up.
I've never worked out a way of resolving the dispute. It was one Justice Gomery felt very strongly about in his work on the sponsorship affair. His recommendation, which was that the Secretary of the Treasury Board become head of the public service, wasn't accepted, and probably, in my view, is unworkable.