In her testimony before the House justice committee last week, the former minister, who was also attorney general, delivered one bombshell after another. After all, we expect that the minister of justice is to act as an attorney general disconnected from political considerations. There, the office of the attorney general exists outside of cabinet, and the attorney general is a non-cabinet minister. Although accountable to Parliament, the attorney general is not accountable to voters in the same way that the Canadian minister of justice is. In fact, there is no practical reason, beyond tradition, that the role of attorney general and justice minister must be fused together in Canada.

Source: Huffington Post March 05, 2019 20:48 UTC