Thank you.
I do find this very useful. I do want to compliment you, Mr. Reid, and your office, for putting together the open government act at the request of the ethics committee in the last Parliament. This is the road map to move forward. I don't mind saying publicly that I wish we had this at this committee, to be able to implement into Bill C-2.
I do understand the limitations, although as a legislative committee we haven't tested how far we can go with amendments and still be in order. I'll be interested to see if they will allow that kind of substance.
As well, Mr. Reid, you are aware that the ethics committee in the last Parliament issued a seventh report just at the end of the Parliament. It called upon government to craft legislation based on the open government act. It seems that every time we get close to meaningful access-to-information reform--just when it's within our grasp--it slips away again for another decade or so. The enemies of true freedom of information seem ever-vigilant and on guard, and as we get close to breaking down these barriers, they rally once again. It seems that they got to this government in the same way that they got to the last government, just as we're about to make a significant breakthrough.
Do you have any comments on that?