I can't tell you why this program is not used across government. We established the program at Environment Canada because a person must have a solid knowledge of the law in order to become a good access to information officer. That goes for all the departments. The legal side of the training is the same for everyone.
However, employees also need to have a sound knowledge of issues specific to each department. They need to know about the access to information requests that are problematic, that may take longer to process, that are complex and that require research and involve a lot of document review. In order to refer requests to the appropriate department section and to then conduct the proper document review, we need people who have a sound knowledge of the department. So the program contains a component that is common to all departments, which is the law, but it also contains a component that is based on the knowledge of each department.