Ms. Simson asked how many new exemptions came in under the accountability act. The answer is one. There was only one new exemption that had not previously existed, and that exemption was recommended by the Auditor General and unanimously supported by the committee. All the other so-called new exemptions already existed before, because the agencies to which those exemptions apply were not even covered by ATI at all before the Federal Accountability Act, meaning that there was a 100% exemption of the whole body. That answers Ms. Simson's question.
My question is, today when you're here listening to members' comment and demands for more access to information, does it not make you wonder why none of them was in favour of going as far as we were willing to go under the accountability act, and why they actually wanted to take organizations off the list that we were trying to add when we moved forward with Bill C-2?