No, we believe in a department like this the deputy minister has to be a very good lawyer, needs to be very aware of legal issues, and is often called upon to give and to validate very complex cases and opinions.
If you look at the major law firms—I suspect most law firms—they will have someone charged with managing who is not necessarily a lawyer. You would expect someone to come up as a lawyer who has that competence and who maybe doesn't have the time, either, to be able to focus on management.
We would suggest that there be a clear designation, perhaps of an associate deputy minister who is charged specifically with financial and operational management. This might be a practice that could be used in other departments as well, where the deputy minister is more focused perhaps on policy or the technical side of the department, leaving the administration up to someone else.