Generally speaking, the government, through the minister, can always give directions to a Crown corporation. The government has various methods to do so. It can use the business plan submitted by the Crown corporation to state its plans for the following year. That is why we have stated several times that the business plan of the Atomic Energy corporation of Canada had not been approved during long periods of time. That organization was functioning without having its operations approved by the government.
On June 12th, 2008. See this statement in context.