It's not expanding my mandate to cover more organizations, because I deal with complaints; now I have more organizations who can complain.
But in response, in terms of the recommendations I'm making today, I would say that while it's true the scope of the act was expanded, and that while it's true Parliament acted in a proactive way to increase the reach for more transparency, we've created a bigger problem. Now we have these many more agencies who essentially have the same kinds of issues to deal with--paper-based, extensions, lack of resources, not enough trained individuals in the system. As a matter of fact, the crown corporations cherry-pick some of the best away from the public service, including from my office, in order to get up to speed.
So while it was well-intended in terms of scope, if we don't fix some of the structure and some of the mechanics, we just create a bigger problem.