Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, witnesses.
The Department of Finance and the Bank of Canada deal with sensitive information all the time, too, and they operate currently under the discretionary exemptions as regulated by the Information Commissioner. Is that correct...the Department of Finance, certainly?
There are exemptions in the existing Access to Information Act for commercially sensitive information, and so on, so that people can have access to information, to those sensitive agencies, and it's left up to the information commissioner whether or not that information should be released in cases like that, where commercially sensitive information is not released.
Why, then, should you get not just an exemption, but an automatic exclusion forever, permanently? That's what's in Bill C-2. You would get an exclusion forever, automatically, without anybody saying yes or no as to whether the public has a right to this information. I don't get that.