Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to go back and explore a little further the questions I asked the minister about Information Commissioner Reid, who tabled a report in Parliament critical of this bill on a number of fronts.
The minister gave me three examples of where this legislation differed from the views of the Information Commissioner, and I want to know if there are more, and if so, why the differences? As an example, he explained that if the Information Commissioner wanted the CBC to reveal a source, this legislation would prevent it by upholding the current provisions regarding the media, which protect disclosing sources.
The second example was that if a complaint was laid by one bureaucrat against another under the whistle-blowing provisions of this act, and if the investigation found there was no basis for the complaint to have been raised, that information would not be given to the Information Commissioner.
What other specific examples did the Information Commissioner provide in his report that were critical of this legislation? Why were there any differences, and what was the rationale in your legislation?