Yes, of course. Access to information is referenced in the Federal Accountability Act and applies to a number of organizations. Personally, I feel that it is important for government organizations to be transparent, even officers of Parliament responsible for privacy. For several years, we have voluntarily cooperated with individuals requesting access to our files. We now have official obligations in this regard; that is why we expect to receive more such requests.
In accordance with this statute, we must also assign an individual to the access to information unit. I believe that the average complaint is expected to take 30 days to process. Four or five people will be required. There are already three or four. We will reserve our opinions and our forecasts in this regard. Should the number of access to information requests increase significantly over the course of the year and we need to assign 10 people to process such requests, so as to do so within the required time period, we would appear before you. We do not anticipate that this will be the case. For now and for the coming months, we think that we will be able to operate as expected.
Our second new responsibility is to conduct reviews of measures taken by FINTRAC, the organization responsible for monitoring money laundering activities. We were given this additional responsibility in December 2006. Since we have yet to conduct a single review of FINTRAC, it's too early to know how many additional people we will need. Should this number exceed the resources at our disposal, we reserve the right to come and request additional resources from you.