Finally, I just want to address this issue of the increased number of complaints. You have said that those complaints do not resolve from the sweeping expansion of the Access to Information Act that the government brought in, but that there are other factors. You might be right that there are other factors, but again, one new institution that we added to the act is responsible for half of all of the new complaints. You might say that was a particularity of that agency, but it continues to be a reality that those 500 complaints are counted as part of the 1,000 new complaints that you cite in your report and are therefore responsible in large degree for the increased number of complaints. It's not that the government is doing a poorer job; it's just that there are a larger number of agencies against which complaints can be made, and therefore there are a larger number of complaints.
On March 9th, 2009. See this statement in context.