I received this just this morning, and frankly I think you've done a very good job of trying to assist the committee with the whole issue of accountability.
I find it's still troubling, because if anything goes wrong, we go after the minister. The minister is the minister, and it's your head on the chopping block--that's about as simply as I can put it--if anything goes wrong in your department. Yet we all clearly know that you're talking about accountability through all your deputies. If a deputy--as you said, the accounting officer--were to receive direction from a minister with which he did not agree, what avenue would he have?