Is it reasonable that democratically-elected members of Parliament have to get involved in order to get a minimum amount of information from a department as a result of a request from a constituent? It seems like the directives are top-down, and that people are being muzzled when it comes to providing information. And when we proceed through an access to information request, the documents are provided very slowly. There are often documents missing. We are referred to certain pages, and these pages are missing. There are also documents that have been censored. In fact, I would say that over 50% of the documents are censored. That bogs the system down. People are dissatisfied and wonder whether, when they turn to access to information, the documents they need in order to do their work are being checked. People are entitled to get their evaluation reports.
There's a fisher in my riding who was evaluated by an official and who did not get his quota. A report was written on this. The report was prepared incorrectly, was censored, and was missing certain pages. And if we have to get involved, once again, we have to turn to an ATI request.