I’m comfortable with this evolution of the convention as you describe, for the reasons given. But the ArriveScam debacle surely is the proof of that convention — indeed it appears there was indictable activity at the bureaucratic level, but for a pair of ministers to be able to claim no knowledge of the disbursement of a program of that dollar value is a scandal of resigning proportions.
I’m comfortable with this evolution of the convention as you describe, for the reasons given. But the ArriveScam debacle surely is the proof of that convention — indeed it appears there was indictable activity at the bureaucratic level, but for a pair of ministers to be able to claim no knowledge of the disbursement of a program of that dollar value is a scandal of resigning proportions.