Mr. Speaker, one of the things that seems to be constantly overlooked in this debate about HRDC's problems is the fact that the minister did not have to release the 10,000 or so documents that revealed the management problems with HRDC. The reality is that the current Access to Information Act in section 21 gives broad powers to the government to withhold audits, to withhold the kind of information that the minister did release. In the one sense the minister deserves credit for having had the courage to release the documents that led to the kind of controversy that did ensue.
There is a whole other segment that is also exempt from the Access to Information Act that I would suggest to the member opposite contains even worse examples of mismanagement, nepotism and problems. That is the area of crown corporations. Currently, under the existing Access to Information Act, all crown corporations are exempt.
Does the member not agree that surely we should be looking to changes in the access act to bring crown corporations under the same scrutiny that is now available to HRDC?