Perhaps I can add that adequate resources to the ATIP office is something that's very important, and that the department took that role seriously. New staff was hired in the ATIP office to deal with the requests. But it's not simply there that the responsibility for success lies. Every employee, every manager in the department, was asked by the senior levels of the department to commit to meeting deadlines when access requests come in and to find the records that are requested and provide them to the ATIP office within a very short timeframe.
You have to remember that within 30 days of the initial response you have to receive the request and do the initial processing of that requesting, which is sent to different parts of the department and is then handled by various people in the department, who sometimes have very little experience dealing with the access act. These people have to find the records that are relevant to the request, do a first read of them, and provide some comments to the ATIP office. That obviously all takes time. Then the ATIP office will have to apply exemptions, if any, and perhaps consult with other departments or with third parties.
Certainly, if there was a success, it was not only because of one part of the department, although the ATIP office obviously deserves the greatest share of that success, but also because there were commitments by senior levels in Justice that were taken up by managers and employees throughout the department.