I have another question along the same lines.
Recently, you expressed some reservations in your evaluation of the Old Port of Montreal Corporation, and that's great. But, as we've recently seen, a minister may ask a high-ranking official—the Librarian and Archivist of Canada, in this case—to resign because of lavish and inappropriate spending.
Further to their ministerial responsibility within a British parliamentary system, a minister has the authority to tell an official that they have committed unacceptable wrongdoing. Why did you not assert your right, specifically in the matter of the Old Port of Montreal Corporation, to say that such a use of public funds by an official constitutes behaviour that is totally unacceptable?
The minister, himself, responded before you by removing those individuals. When someone is clearly to blame for mismanagement, or worse, an abuse of power, why not assert your authority to indicate that that specific individual is guilty of misconduct that should be punished?