That recommendation did not just come out of my head. It was a specific recommendation of a royal commission, a one-man commission headed by former Justice La Forest, who looked at privacy and access to information and noted that privacy has, in PIPEDA, an education mandate. Therefore, the Access to Information Commissioner should have the same. It's also a question of credibility.
Right now, if there is any education being done, it's being done by the Treasury Board Secretariat. How credible is that, given their performance on the statute to start with? It's not very credible in my eyes. How much would it cost? It could start small. There is no budget for it now. Maybe it's $100,000. Let's take whatever is in the budget of the Privacy Commissioner and give me half or give the commissioner half. It's a start. We technically don't have the authority to print an information pamphlet and hand it out to schools, for instance. On the education side, we are limited to resources sacrificed elsewhere or reallocated.
In the modern world, with websites and that sort of thing, it need not cost a whole lot of money. There's a front-end cost to setting it up, and then it's like the information office for Parliament. I was the clerk who started it, and there were front-end costs. Today, it has paid tremendous dividends. You have a national teachers' institute that brings in a whole bunch of teachers every year to learn about Parliament, about the life of an MP or senator. There's a cost attendant to that. I think that every federal institution—particularly one that has an oversight role—needs a certain amount of ability to educate people about ATI, to tell people what their rights are and how to access the information they need.