Thanks, Mr. Chairman.
We're doing this study based on a motion that asks us to review and report on the alleged disclosure of names of ATI requesters to political staff under the current and previous governments. That's the specific mandate we have.
We've heard from both offices that the release of these names to political staff is apparently a practice that has occurred--let's put it that way--at least in several instances, but we seem to lack specific, concrete cases and evidence that we can look at. This is a problem for the committee, I would say, with one exception being the Information Commissioner's report in 1998-99 on the receipt of these names by political staff in former Minister Eggleton's office. And then there's the Rowat case, but he was an official, not political staff. I gather that Mr. Rowat was a deputy minister seconded to the Newfoundland government.
So I'd like to take another run at this. The privacy office has said there haven't been complaints about these kinds of apparent breaches for a long time; that there have been a few, and some were rejected and some were accepted. Could you please provide this committee with a summary of those instances where complaints were accepted by your office in the past so we can look at concrete, specific instances?