Can I just add to this?
You have to understand what happens now. Allegations and investigations of wrongdoing have been going on in government since time immemorial, and the Access to Information Act has been covering these reports. Here's how they're handled.
If someone asks for a record about an investigation into a wrongdoing against you, government institutions neither confirm nor deny whether they have any such record, because to do so would reveal personal information about you. They release nothing. That's the current way. We're not talking about having a situation where it all goes out. You have privacy exemptions in the act, but there are provisions that allow it to go out with consent if it's already in the public domain, or if there's an overriding public interest. What the provision that has been proposed in Bill C-2 does is take away all of those out-clauses, so there is no public interest override, no consent—you can't even consent to it being disclosed—and no disclosure, even if it's already in the public domain.
We're just saying that the current protections are strong, but they have out-clauses essential in a democracy. What's being proposed takes away those essential out-clauses in a democracy.