Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Andrews, to your question as to the word “prejudice” in the Access to Information Act, I refer you to sections 14 and 15 of the act. They talk of when a disclosure “could reasonably be expected to be injurious to the conduct by the Government ”, in the case of section 14, and in the case of section 15, “could reasonably be expected to be injurious to the conduct of international affairs”. Similarly, paragraph 16(1)(c), the Access to Information Act talks of “disclosure of which could reasonably be expected to be injurious to the enforcement of any law of Canada”.
The way the Access to Information Act is currently written doesn't create a prejudice test using the word “prejudice”, but rather an injurious test or an injury-based test where, again, the standards are reasonability and the cause of, in this case, injury. So the wording, as proposed, is different. The Access to Information Act does contain certain, while not identical, rather similar tests.
I hope that helps answer your question.