Yes, I think that is a major risk. In terms of Canadians' access rights, this decision is unfortunate. That's what I said when it was made. I feel that ministers' offices should be covered. It would be a lot easier for them to be covered and for the act to contain provisions protecting parliamentary privilege, as in the case of documents belonging to people in your ridings. Those are truly documents of a political nature.
I think that modern legislation covers ministers', MPs' and magistrates' offices. My opinion is that the act should do the same. Does this mean that Canadians would not have access to certain documents? That's sort of what the Supreme Court's decision means. That decision covered little-known documents. Yet, if we consider the facts, we realize that the outcome is really disastrous.
The minister in charge of the Department of National Defence and some of that department's senior officials have held a number of meetings, and the only notes on those meetings were taken by the political employee of the minister's office. But those notes will never be accessible. The court actually ruled that they were not accessible or covered by the Access to Information Act. I think that those notes were very relevant to the meetings and should have been covered by the act. That's a concrete example of where this issue stands. The Supreme Court issued this ruling, which is problematic. The other problem is that, even though I have the power to request records from the ministers' offices, I can never be sure that they have sent me everything.