Information & Ethics committee  There may be costs associated with making it public, but as a citizen, I'm willing to bear that. It's $1.60 per year per Canadian citizen. It's a Tim Hortons medium double-double. If you went to a large double-double, or an extra-large double-double, I'd be happy.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll have to review it, but I know that the Delagrave commission in 2000 looked at it as well and recommended against it.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure, absolutely. No problem.

Information & Ethics committee  You can file a complaint with the commissioner, and the commissioner will cause an investigation. We will interact with the Privy Council Office, which is responsible for managing cabinet confidences. Through the investigation, ultimately, if they maintain their position that it

Information & Ethics committee  I was referring to the central agencies, PCO being one of them, in the sense that if there is a stranglehold on communications, that has a trickle-down effect down the side of the mountain. So if you're not allowed to communicate what you would normally communicate without checki

Information & Ethics committee  It's a very important one. I wouldn't say it's the most important. I tried to bring twelve recommendations as a package. Obviously, you can take some out and the package will survive. The key with cabinet confidences is that right now the clerk has no choice. It's a mandatory e

Information & Ethics committee  Sorry, not Carol, Colleen. Thank you.

Information & Ethics committee  I've had to deal with some of those situations, and what I share with interested parties from other countries is that we have a very sound statute in its principles, and they should look to it as a model. In terms of its current status, there are a lot of lessons to be learned o

Information & Ethics committee  I totally agree, and article 2 of the act expressly says so. The act is intended to complement and not replace existing procedures for access to government information, and it is not intended to limit in any way access to the type of government information that is normally availa

Information & Ethics committee  That was a private member's bill, and it was Carole Beaumier, not Carole Lavallée, who sponsored the bill in 1997. It was an amendment that is now section 67.1, which makes it a criminal offence to destroy documents. It flowed from the Somalia inquiry issues and the blood inquiry

Information & Ethics committee  Again, when you're looking at a fee structure, the complexity it would introduce would probably not bring you much return. People will get around that by getting their brother-in-law to file their request.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, sure.

Information & Ethics committee  Those who want to get around it, obviously, will get around it.

Information & Ethics committee  There is an issue, if you will, with data brokers who gather information and may sell it. The challenge will be how you sort them out. The lawyer who's acting for a new immigrant who is not versed in—

Information & Ethics committee  Well, it may not be. I'm not sure; it may not be. It could be substantive information about policy. For example, if I'm a new immigrant and I don't understand why my wife is not being allowed back in the country, I may want to find out some policy information and advice that migh