Chairman, any question about timeframes needs to take into account the fact that while the statute sets out timeframes, the statute also provides a proper mechanism for extending timeframes. And then it provides a mechanism for a requester who has a problem with that to turn first to the information commissioner, and second to the federal courts.
Subject to that comment, obviously, it is not just the policy of the government, the position of the government. It is my personal view that subject to that, of course, timeframes are supposed to be met. And that's why the government, as I've already said, introduced an amendment in the Federal Accountability Act, to the Access to Information Act, to add a new subsection that wasn't there before, to make heads of departments--i.e., ministers--responsible for accurate, complete, and timely responses to requests.