The members will do with the bill what the members decide to do with the bill.
I would be very, very disappointed if the government believes that individuals making as much as $444,000 ought to have the privacy laws of Canada protect them from specific salary disclosure, particularly when I indicated that if you have a contract with the federal government for as little as $10,001 it's on a public website. I find that irreconcilable. I think there are lots of deficiencies with our access regime. I think I indicated that a report from the Centre for Law and Democracy said that we are 55th out 93 countries in terms of our openness and transparency, and our access.
This bill doesn't fix very many of those, but it would fix a couple of specific ones. I encourage members of this committee to continue to promote greater transparency. Canada was once a leader. When we first had our access to information law in 1983, it was held to be the gold standard of access, but there has only been a minimal incremental expansion of our access laws since then. The Information Commissioner will testify to that effect, I believe, when she's here next week. The government—and I don't mean only this government, but the Government of Canada as an institution—has a reputation for opaqueness. I think that trend needs to be strongly reversed.