Well, as one of the people who used the access act conservatively during the sponsorship scandal and got the auditors' notes, got the lists of all the different sponsorship things, first of all I had a great deal of trouble convincing the media that there was a scandal there. But no, it's going to make matters a lot worse.
Listen, how can I put it to you this way, to appeal to all inclined? I can remember when Prime Minister Mulroney issued a memo, or his people in the Privy Council Office did, saying, “Check if you're going to release my foreign travel expenses under access to information; I have to know so it can be massaged.” Yet the same gentleman, once he left government, asked me to get his records because he felt abused because of the Airbus situation with a different government. So what goes around comes around.
Let's have a level playing field. Everybody should keep their promises. I think we're seeing it's high time we live in a different kind of situation.
We have the Internet. We have a lot of credibility in a lot of other information channels. We have to catch up or we won't have the accountability, and this act does not speak to that.