Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Mr. Reid. Thank you for your presentation, and thanks for the material that we received in advance of the hearing. It was very helpful.
I'm a little confused here. On page 4 of your presentation, your comments are very clear that you are “concerned that none of the 10 new exemptions from the right of access require a showing, on a case-by-case basis,” that harm or prejudice could result, and that many of them are mandatory, or all of the others, except for the two you mention, regardless of the circumstance. Only one is time-limited. To me it seems very clear that you have concerns and that you are in fact suggesting--with some expertise, I might say, humbly, for you--that these are not good amendments.
I am confused, because I sat in the House numerous times when the president of the Treasury Board said that you said that this is the most radical or expansive act--I won't quote him--that you have ever seen. That you are very pleased with it would be the inference I drew on our side.
I can't reconcile those two comments.
But I might turn to pages 13, 14, and 15 of this little brief--