I would say we have no problem with the government developing, in parallel--as I believe it is supposed to function--a communications strategy to explain why a decision was taken when the background to that decision is going to be released in public, as long as it does not interfere with the process and as long as statutory response times are complied with, and--as Mr. Leadbeater said--as long as it does not lead to additional censoring or requests for the alteration or obstruction of records, as we saw in the Gomery inquiry.
This was, in fact, part of the to and fro. It was described in great detail how an access to information request from a journalist went through the coordinator, up to the political office, back down to the department, back and forth as they debated about what the requester actually asked for and what they could leave out, in terms of...and this whole process took weeks and weeks.
So our issue is with delays and with this process interfering and causing those delays.