I think that the minister tried to describe the two hats that he wears, and I think the committee will hear from witnesses more expert than I am.
When you are the Prime Minister and the chair of cabinet and answerable before Parliament and go to question period, everything that happens in the government apparatus is of some concern to you or of some interest to you to know what's going on and to follow it. That said, each minister has very specific roles given to them by statute to take decisions. They're regulatory decisions on all sorts of things, permits, licences, that are held by the minister.
The role of the Minister of Justice in the case of prosecutions is incredibly clear in Canada. There is a statutory, legal force field around the prosecution function in Canada that doesn't exist in the United Kingdom, by the way. We have the strongest protection of independent prosecution that I can think of.