No, no, it's fair. I really appreciate him bringing it forward. It was brought to my attention that the statistics with respect to the number of cases the Crown referred to the commission was inaccurate; the exact number of applications initiated by the Crown challenging jurisdictional issue against the Information Commissioner was 51. So there were three cases where the Attorney General of Canada was successful, and 94% of the cases were not. That means the Information Commissioner won.
I think we should be taking advantage of this. They mention here how they measure their success. They are taking an ombudsman role. They are specialized and have the knowledge and the expertise. This motion does not take advantage of that.
This motion tries to bring that forward, and I think we should only be looking at this after he's done a report. Then, in addition to that, we should be looking, in my view, at what went wrong with the other 48 cases brought forward and that the government of the day—a Liberal government—lost against the commissioner. Then if there are changes that need to be recommended, based on the culmination of that information, and if there's a theme that runs through it, let's do that.
But this motion in front of us, Mr. Chair, talks about urgency and about violations. I don't believe this is an urgent matter. I believe it implies there are violations. I think we should wait to hear the commissioner, and I would appreciate the mover of this motion deferring the motion until we hear from the Information Commissioner on this topic, on whether his office is even able to appear on this while they have an active file in front of them.
Thank you for your time.