Let me pose the question to you. People who work in this field will often say that they can get really good information about Canada by putting in a freedom of information request in the United States. They come along and they ask for the same information in Canada and they can't get it. We often have that situation in federal-provincial relations, where the province will release it but the federal government won't release it. At some point, you have to look at it and say, how do we correct this odd state of affairs? We want to make sure that Canadians can get information from their own government without having to go to another government.
On June 19th, 2006. See this statement in context.