Mr. Watson, in your presentation, you stated that under the Access to Information Act, according to your reading of it, nothing would prevent the name of a requester from being released, but that it’s quite a different matter under the Privacy Act.
Doesn’t that clearly point to the fact that one law violates the other? If we’re talking about a situation where the Privacy Act prohibits the release of information and where, at the same time, the Access to Information Act does not create such a barrier, would you not agree that key aspects of these two pieces of legislation are contradictory as regards information and respect for privacy?
In your opinion, should we amend the Access to Information Act to ensure consistency between that law and the Privacy Act?