Yes, a sunshine list just discloses the compensation of the top earners in government, to see how that trend is increasing year over year.
As I mentioned, the vast majority of provincial governments implement a sunshine list for transparency 101 for taxpayers. I think that is a good, transparent movement for all Canadians at the federal level.
What would make an internal study from this committee as good as possible? You mentioned the bonuses. I mentioned the bonuses earlier. I think the committee needs to identify which government employees were responsible for the wrongdoing, where we went from $80,000 to $26 million to $54 million. Who was responsible?
Above that, why weren't other government employees, especially those at the top, saying anything when the costs were $80,000, $800,000, $8 million, $18 million and so on?
Beyond that, I really do believe that an immediate step to improve transparency is to just take the recommendations from the Information Commissioner, published in January 2021. Specifically, recommendations 2 and 4 are with respect to agencies that get these types of contracts being subject to the Access to Information Act. Recommendation 4 is that government employees or institutions can't skirt the access to information requests with section 19 when it doesn't apply.