Those are two questions.
I absolutely agree with you, Mr. Angus, that Canadian citizens, and for that matter, parliamentarians, have a right to know how much salary and bonuses are earned by top federal civil servants. Taxpayers have a right to know; it leads to accountability.
The other part of the bill also provides for specific job descriptions at the same benchmark, whereas below the benchmark you're only entitled to a job classification as opposed to the specific responsibilities of the individual. By allowing that information to be disclosed pursuant to access legislation, it allows taxpayers to compare the job that a department or agency is doing versus the salary paid to its top members.
Why the government is proposing to mitigate Canadian taxpayers' ability to find that out, I can only speculate. My speculation would be that they don't want to be in a position to have to defend what they pay some of their top people.