Thanks, Madam Chair.
I'm having a bit of a problem with the screen freezing this morning, so I apologize for that.
I'm happy to have the minister before us today on ministerial responsibility, because that's what we are actually studying here. I'm not happy that the government has chosen to ignore an order from the House, but I do think it gives us a opportunity to talk about the concept of ministerial responsibility with the minister. I'm quite happy to do so today.
I should note that the reason we were calling upon staff members and staff from the Privy Council Office is in fact that the minister pointed us to them in his testimony and said that it had nothing to do with him and we had to talk to these people. In fact, it's the minister who originally suggested that we should talk to staff people, who he is now saying should not be called before the committee.
I look forward to talking to him about the concept of ministerial responsibility and who actually is responsible for the fact that the minister and the Prime Minister failed to act to remove a chief of the defence staff when there was a substantiated complaint of sexual misconduct against him.