Sure. We actually, respectfully, disagree, and I think that the former government did actually ask Justice La Forest to look into this issue. I think that precisely because the issues of privacy and access to information need to be so delicately balanced that having them under the same office can create more problems. We've seen that in other jurisdictions, where, for example, due to privacy provisions, police forces across the country are now not routinely giving the media access to certain pieces of information that they used to routinely have access to, and the reason they're using is that they're basically misapplying the Privacy Act. So it does create problems, we think, to house them under the same office.
On May 30th, 2006. See this statement in context.