The Treasury Board Secretary would still be accountable to the Privy Council or to the Clerk through the Privy Council and ultimately to the Prime Minister. Imagine that the Secretary to Treasury Board should impose these regulations to the Privy Council Office for example and that the next day he had to be accountable to the Clerk, which is in fact the Privy Council Deputy Minister. Do you believe that such a situation would be tolerable?
On November 9th, 2006. See this statement in context.