I'm sorry, it's rude to interject, but I was involved in the department for quite some time. Yes, Status of Women Canada is an agency, but it reports, through its coordinator, to another bureaucrat. She does not report directly to the minister. I know that much. There is, obviously, an assistant deputy minister or a deputy minister to whom that coordinator reports, and that's who makes.... They have much more power than the coordinator does.
On November 19th, 2007. See this statement in context.