Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon, Mr. Minister.
I have a couple of questions on sections 23 and 24 from the discussion paper that I want to go through. The Information Commissioner proposed to add an injury test to any exemption that does not already have one. One such exemption is in section 23, which I'm sure you know well. It protects information covered by solicitor and client privilege.
Am I right that in the private sector, and also in other access to information legislation in Canada, there is no requirement that an injury test be met before the solicitor and client privilege can be used?
Also, it seems fairly obvious to me what the injury would be from failing to give adequate protection to communications involving this legal advice between a lawyer and a client in an institution covered by ATIA. Could you comment on that, please?