Here's where I get excited, because I'm going to advance my own theory, for which, up until now, I haven't had a lot of buy-in, although I'm heartened by Mr. Benoit's--and others touched on this.
Prior to 1993--we heard testimony on this, and we just discussed it--there were political people right in the bureaucracy of APORS. Is it conceivable that the professional civil servants, the people who are supposed to sort of hold the politicians accountable from regime to regime...? The analogy I use in my own mind is that it's not unlike working in a factory, if any of you have ever done that, where the boss's son works. So here you had a department that had political staff in it, and to me that would certainly send signals throughout the public service that they are going to do things a little differently, that they have a pipeline through to the political side, that over time it's probably not worth worrying too much about what's going on over there, because they have their own back channels and they'll answer to their own masters.
My theory is that when the Liberals came in with the best intentions and said this doesn't make sense, so take the political staff out of there--and Mr. Benoit asked you this--they weren't replaced with anybody.
I guess my theory suggests that perhaps Mr. Guité filled that vacuum.