It's fairly publicly known that I do not support all of Mr. Reid's suggestions. I believe in a public right to know act rather than simply an open government act. I don't think a public interest override act, having used it in the provinces, will achieve much. That is why--and I know Dave McKie will agree with me--proactive disclosure of environmental safety and health and consumer reports is what's really needed, a real disclosure that gets prior consent from parties, that negotiates between federal and provincial people and says we all want disclosure internationally.
What we don't want are things that don't put it forward. So when Mr. Reid does put it forward and gives one concrete obligation, a duty to document, I agree with that. But you need to have many other duties, not weasel words that say “reasonably expected to service the public”. No, no, no! We want right in the purpose clause a conduct code that says disclosure is a prime focus of the act and you have to honour that code, not that you have to reasonably, maybe, apply a secrecy code, which is what in essence it means if you take away the fine language.