Instead of retreating to his ivory tower and dreaming up plans to limit the powers of Quebec's National Assembly, would the minister not be better advised to have a word with the Minister of Finance so that the next federal-provincial conference focuses on the real problem: getting the money to those who provide the services?
National Assembly would hold meetings in an ivory tower.
The passage says that 'instead of going into their ivory tower' which means they don't.
( z1 hold :ARG0 ( z2 government-organization :name ( z3 name :op "National" :op "Assembly" ) ) :ARG1 ( z4 meet ) :location ( z5 tower :mod ( z6 ivory ) ) )