The Department of Tank Design had a monthly board meeting to discuss Carrier design. I located some of the meeting minutes in the online Canadian archives. Unfortunately I have not found them all yet.
Here is the front page of each set of minutes, the minutes lead from there:
Hope this is of interest.
Tim
All Reel C5777, page number is in the image name.
1944-AUG-10 - 7th Meeting
1944-DEC-07 - 11th Meeting
1945-JAN-01 - 12th Meeting
1945-FEB-08 - 13th Meeting
1945-MAR-08 -14th Meeting