What we're talking about is that the departmental official would be, for example—and I think this might be an example, Mr. Chairman, that was used by the deputy information commissioner—a pay clerk who would have to know the name of a requester, because the name of the requester is on the cheque, for example. Someone who would be in the ATIP office, for example, who is processing that access request would be the departmental official in question. Anyone who, for example, is on what we call “the delegation tree” would be authorized to know the name of the requester. For example, depending again on the institution, depending on how complicated the institution is, it would potentially be the ATIP coordinator who has delegation. As well, a government institution may have chosen to delegate that authority, that power, to an ADM in the chain and the deputy, again depending on how that would be carried out.
On October 4th, 2006. See this statement in context.