Thank you very much.
First, Professor Flaherty, let me say that I do not quite agree with what you said about the Access to Information Act. Personally, I think the act is as quaint, as you said, as the one we are talking about today. I think, for example, about section 15(1), which is never justified, and about the timelines that are never, or very rarely, followed. It is a real disaster. Furthermore, it is impossible to file lawsuits and you can sometimes see departmental interference. All these reasons, and any number of others, lead me to think that dealing with access to information is extremely urgent. Personally, I would have liked to study the Access to Information Act before the Privacy Act. Unfortunately, Charles Hubbard voted on behalf of the Liberals and Russ Hiebert, I am afraid, will have to concede that he is not the father of the study we are currently doing.
Earlier, we looked at the ten recommendations and you said that you were all in agreement on them. The intent of recommendation 6 is for the commissioner to have greater discretion to refuse or discontinue complaints. You said that you agreed completely with that recommendation. I think that giving the commissioner discretionary power would pose no problem at the moment, but still, we cannot see into the future. Would it not be better to specify the kind of complaint that she must refuse or discontinue? Would it not be better to do that than to say that she can discontinue a complaint at her discretion?