Okay. Thank you for that.
There was a discussion paper before on an open government act, in fact. I guess we would hope that we'd see this, and maybe that's to my friends on the government side. I recall clearly during the debates on Bill C-2 that we were promised...and as we said from our end, access to information is the oxygen for open government and transparency.
So when we look at how that's done...I'll give you another last point, Chair. How materials are gathered concerns me greatly because.... I'll give you an example.
I know Ms. Sabourin, as Mr. Wallace pointed out, was a very experienced person. She was giving advice and feedback directly on some of the cases that were in front of us. She was doing that on her BlackBerry, and she was very involved in the files. I think she was probably working very hard. I know that many public servants have a lot on their plates these days. I hear it on a regular basis. But you have a level of experience of someone like Ms. Sabourin, who is handling this directly.
I'm just wondering, is that typical practice, and is it common to have someone who is at that high a level dealing with a file of this nature directly? Maybe I'd ask you.