I have no authority to release documents at all. I am an ombudsman, and therefore I can only recommend to departments that they release the information. I have no power to do that on my own. We have 1,400 cases a year. We take maybe two cases a year to court. Mind you, I'm sued by the government about ten or twelve times a year, but I only take about two cases a year to court. We are probably the leading proponent of alternative dispute resolution in the Government of Canada. We're very successful and very proud of that.
It goes back to the original question that was asked about the radical proposal. The radical proposal, in my mind, was to give me an ombudsman order-making power. I am very satisfied with the powers that I have under the Access to Information Act to do what I have to do, and I was grateful that the government dropped that proposal.