Thank you for being with us today, Ms. Legault, Ms. Campbell and Ms. Neill. You are certainly to be congratulated on your testimony, Ms. Legault. It was a very fine illustration of independent thinking, the kind of independence that anyone in your position should in fact demonstrate. That same freedom of thought is found in Mr. Marleau's report, in particular where he says:
Still, much more is needed to bring about a true culture of openness and transparency, and allow Canada to regain its status as a leader in the area of access to information.
This means that there has been negative progress in recent years. It is natural that a public service will to some extent tend not to be very open, given that it wants to protect itself against the judgments that might be made of some of its decisions. The public service has not really changed, but the government has changed. When we see that government policies relating to obtaining information are regressing, we may well wonder.
In your testimony, you said that a percentage of access requests were slowed down because of the time for analysis and approval required by Privy Council. Is that correct?