Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Marleau, if you've been following the hearings of the committee, you'll know that one of the lines of questioning from one of the members has been around what the most significant revisions to the ATI act over the years have been. I know the line did change over time; I have to grant the member that. It did cause some concern to one of our witnesses, Stanley Tromp, who believed he was misrepresented. I think he would want me to say that what he said was merely that the accountability act was one step forward, but it was not the most single significant step. In fact, he believes the most significant reform to the ATI act was the amendment to the act to add section 67.1, introduced by MP Carole Lavallée and passed in 1999.
That change was, I gather, for prescribing fines and jail terms for the unauthorized destruction and falsification of records. Did that actually go all the way through? Did it succeed in making its way all the way through Parliament and ultimately being proclaimed?