Minister, you also say that you remove material that's not relevant. You stated that, and I suppose I'm concerned.
I say things I shouldn't at times, and Freudian slips happen, but you said you “interfere”. You didn't mean to say that, I know, but when someone--a reporter or whoever, and I don't care if it's a reporter--asks for information, I think most reasonable people looking at having transparency in government would think they could just ask a simple question and not have to go through a plethora of gatekeepers.
At the end of the day, why would your political staff be involved in removing material? Is that material being changed because of political concerns? We'd have to see the initial drafts of those missives to understand that; I don't think we have access to that material, but do you understand why people's perception would be that there are gatekeepers and that they're not public servants, but in fact political staff?
That's not right.