That's right, it should not be referred to as a criminal act. It should be referred to as an omission of justice because that is exactly what it was. The ministers responsible for the Treasury Board, justice, and the subsequent ministers responsible for this knew they were not following parliamentary procedure and deliberately hid the costs from the Canadian public.
They went a step further than that. They also did not hold their deputy ministers nor their assistant deputy ministers responsible. They did not hold anyone who touched this project in the civil service responsible. It has always been my submission that politicians should be responsible for the civil service and not the other way around. I think in this case it is so blatant that the whole gamut, the entire group of people who touched this, should be held accountable for it.