Thank you, Chairman and members of the committee.
The position of the government is clear. The government expects that the act will be upheld and that there will be full compliance. The act requires that decisions about access be communicated in a timely fashion, and if not, there is a process under the act for time extensions. Then there's a process for right of appeal, as you know, to the information commissioner. So it's the government's expectation that there will be full compliance with the act.
Now, the member's question relates to delegations, and in his preamble he suggested that all those delegations might be to ATIP officers. That in fact is not the case. Each minister has issued a different delegation. The names of the employees to whom functions have been delegated are in the delegation orders. Every department puts those delegation orders on its website.
The member will notice that different departments have different delegations. Some delegations are ATIP coordinators, some are delegated to directors general, and in some departments the minister has delegated some functions under the act to some levels of employees and some to others. So I can't comment on the range of delegations across the system--