I would not want, Mr. Chairman, the responsibility for actually training and educating the ATIP coordinators. They are employees of the federal government, and Treasury Board has that mandate. We do some education through our reviews. We do two kinds of investigations, one following complaints, and then initiated reviews; and through that process, when we assess the department's performance, there's a lot of educating, if you like, going on, and we're going to continue doing that.
If the act were to be opened up, it would be one of my recommendations that we be given an education mandate on the advocacy side of education. We've done, I think, quite a bit in collaboration with the Privacy Commissioner and the University of Alberta with existing resources, with very minor investments on our part--mostly intellectual--on top of the duties my officers have.
If I can just make a parallel here with internal audit, the Government of Canada, Treasury Board, has set standards for recruitment of internal auditors. They set standards for recruitment of financial officers, and certification is required. I believe the same thing should apply to ATI coordinators, so that a deputy minister who gets a report from his coordinator's office that says “This has to be divulged” can look at that report with the same kind of confidence as if he were getting it from an SFO or from an internal auditor.