Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Ms. Stoddart, for your observations. Listening to you, it made me think that much of what we're doing today with Bill C-2 really had its origins in the incidents in your office. I remember, of course, that the inquiry of the government operations committee into the Office of the Privacy Commissioner was sort of a catalyst for a lot of us realizing, first of all, the need for better whistle-blower protection, because we remember the scene when these honest, well-meaning whistle-blowers were so concerned about their own protection or lack of it that they felt they had to bring legal counsel with them to make their presentations to a standing committee of the House of Commons. That, more than anything, just drove it home to us that the whistle-blower protection regime is woefully inadequate. So I thank you for your observations on that today.
Early in your brief you made the point that privacy is not synonymous with secrecy, which is a very good point to raise here, I think. But by the same token, the Auditor General, when she was a witness to this committee, testified that whenever you increase access to information authority or regulations, or improve access, as it were, it has the effect of reducing the amount of documentation. In other words, there's a problem from her point of view; she finds that there's less to audit when there are access to information requests going on.
Do you anticipate corresponding problems with privacy complaints if we increase dramatically the access to information provisions within Bill C-2?