Madam Speaker, I think we would all agree that the minister of justice is part of cabinet decision-making within the government. I also think that everyone in the House would agree that the Attorney General often needs to play the role of an independent arbiter.
I would ask the member for Glengarry—Prescott—Russell what he thinks about the idea of the portfolios of the minister of justice and the Attorney General being assigned to different people in order to strengthen the independence of the Attorney General.