Information & Ethics committee  In 1983.

Information & Ethics committee  I can only echo what the other witnesses said in support of this recommendation. Virtually every one of them said that if it's being done, it's being done now. The lack of direct right of access can be easily circumvented by using data brokers. The requests are currently being ma

Information & Ethics committee  That recommendation actually finds its genesis in what goes on in privacy right now. You're looking at the Privacy Act. You know about privacy impact assessments. It's also a recommendation from former Justice La Forest in his report on access to information. It's a recommendatio

Information & Ethics committee  Zero.

Information & Ethics committee  It's costing you money. You'd probably save $50.

Information & Ethics committee  No. There again, I disagree with the minister's position, simply because of the experience in the provinces where there are full order-making powers, as well as administrative and substantive issues. Having, say, a 60-day deadline and having to come to the commissioner, as happe

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think it was taken into consideration in 1983 when they decided on 30 days as the expected time return for access to information. Today, with the Internet and people being web-based, it's not an issue.

Information & Ethics committee  No, I don't believe the minister has a point. I think he has misread the recommendation and the text related thereto. The current system of access to the courts through the commissioner, after investigation, with the commissioner bearing the cost of access, with the permission o

Information & Ethics committee  In terms of costs, as I said, it's difficult to come up with a particular figure. What I've done is look at it in terms of low, medium, and high. In the context of, say, number 4, I see that as low-cost because it allows me to manage the workload, and it may in fact reduce costs

Information & Ethics committee  As I recall, I think you've referred to what's known as the Blood Tribe case. The Blood Tribe case is a case that went to the Supreme Court, but it flowed from PIPEDA, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. Quite frankly, it doesn't apply here. The lang

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think so, and we have plenty of practice and some jurisprudence to support that.

Information & Ethics committee  At the time that CAIRS was cancelled I did make a public statement that we disagreed with that position, and I think my assistant commissioner made a similar statement. We had been consulted much, much earlier and had made recommendations that if it was going to be discontinued,

Information & Ethics committee  I really don't have a sense of how often it's being asked twice, because I see the complaints. But I suspect that a central repository would go a long way to cure any redundancy that way.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, the fee structure is almost as old as the statute, and a $5 cheque is worth probably $1.06 right now. It probably costs $55 to process a $5 cheque, so in that sense, I don't think it makes any sense at all anymore. I think there has to be a reasonable fee to contain.... If

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.