My understanding of this was simply that the minister delegated that responsibility to the chief of the defence staff. The chief of the defence staff, in Operation Honour, on August 15, 2015, directed that the vice-chief of the defence staff write a strategy for Operation Honour within 45 days, by September 30, 2015. That was never done. Without any external oversight or anyone seeming to notice internally, Operation Honour never had a strategy, even though the CDS directed that it be written.
On April 13th, 2021. See this statement in context.