Which ones? I'm merely going further, based on my international experience. Certainly I have found, out of appearing in front of court and without a constitutional right, that gives you a lot more leverage. If it's a mere statute, you have a lot more leverage. That's a difference.
Mandatory disclosure codes are absolutely essential, because it turns the whole access around, instead of, like in the Reid bill, under policy advice, putting a list of exceptions as to who can get polls or statistics or whatever. I say no, put that right up at the front as the code.
In terms of open meeting requirements, sunshine act, we need that. Certainly at the National Energy Board, there's an office in NRCan that's dealing with the Mackenzie Valley pipeline and nuclear safety issues. Those things have to be brought out in open meeting arrangements, and we have the right to appeal. You don't wait 20 or 30 days for your access request; you appeal right to the commissioner and say you can't get into that meeting right away. That's called transparency in a good sense.
The right to sue I think is not in any bill because citizens are frustrated by commissioners. They need to have the means to go straight to the courts by dealing with a different twist.
ATI users.... There's a discrepancy between corporate users and the average citizen, and those people really do need help. Why do we have such a low usage? Part of the reason is it's complicated and a lot of citizens are alienated from the system.
There's no international system. Give order powers, is what I'm suggesting, and let me just tie in there. If you limit it to administrative order powers, you're making the attention in investigations to secrecy, which is the main problem right now, second-class complaints and appeals. And I found that very wrong.
The last thing I will say, which may be obvious, is that I have greatly reduced the number of exemptions and narrowed them quite considerably. That, I think, is absolutely essential, because the secrecy is the main problem right now. And if we don't deal with it, 25 years from now we'll have the very same act.