You mentioned that Mr. Goodale was the minister at the time, after the short tenure of Mr. Boudria, who unfortunately left under a cloud from the Ministry of Public Works. I seem to recall that Mr. Goodale was in the House of Commons saying that everything would be run by the book and done by the book, and it would be clean as a whistle and nothing would be untoward under his administration.
Do you think that this type of administration and involvement by the politicians, for no documented reason whatsoever, in overturning a decision by the bureaucracy is an appropriate use of ministerial authority?