Thank you, Madam Commissioner. I'm very pleased to have you before us. I'm glad of your bluntness about the fact that your office is not being given the resources it needs. We see that this government has a terrible record of openness with the Canadian public.
I'm looking at some departments that you have tried to deal with: Natural Resources gets an F, with a refusal rate of 22%; CIDA, an F; Canadian Heritage, an F, with a refusal rate of 40.8%; Environment Canada, an F, with a refusal rate of 36.9%; Foreign Affairs, given a special red alert. It seems to me that these are the hot-button ministries that are being used politically by the government; they seem to be the most secretive.
What is it that is stopping you and Canadians from getting the information they need from these departments?