I think so. My understanding of transition legislation or transition law—and you really have to speak to experts on this—is that if we don't provide something specific in the legislation, in the private member's bill, we would be faced with the situation that the assistant commissioner is describing, i.e., I would have a set of complaints where the old law would apply and new complaints where the new law would apply.
My difficulty with that is that it would not be very good for taxpayers to have me, my office staff, spend time to investigate old complaints under old legislation. And if I have a disagreement, and the CBC is not in agreement with my recommendations for disclosure, then it's certainly not a case I would like to take to court, because that would be a waste of taxpayers' money.
I think we need to provide for transition provisions so that this does not occur.