It's part of a spectrum. When I was here last, one thing I did say was that the way our legislation is structured, if you look at the purpose clause of the Access to Information Act, it basically says that the default mode is to make an access to information request, in essence. Otherwise, it says it doesn't mean that it detracts from the obligation of the government to disclose information proactively and from what should normally be disclosed to the citizens.
The question we have to ask ourselves in 2010 is what is the information that governments should normally disclose as a matter of course? And that's what is changing. The requests from citizens in terms of what access they have to information readily available has increased because of the use of the web and social media and so on, and the expectations in terms of how long people expect....
Access to information perhaps in a utopian world, in my view, would be the exception to the rule, where you would have access to information requests where you're really trying to access information that is more subject to being protected, either because of national security reasons or because of personal confidential information, and then it would be more restricted. The bulk of the information would be disclosed proactively and then access to information would be the exception to the rule, as it was really meant to be. And then my office would be spending most of its time on these complex cases of access to information, where we have to strike the right balance between public trust and disclosure and the protection of very sensitive information. And we wouldn't be spending our time, as we still are quite a bit, on dealing with administrative matters of delays, extensions, and so on.