I think the potential of a wedge is there, but to be very fair and very reasonable, as it stands, I think it appears far worse than what it actually is. The Supreme Court in its decision says that when a document has basically no fingerprints of any bureaucrats, it has been created within the minister's office.
There could be instances where advice of the minister's exempt staff to him will cover these kinds of records, but for instance if a record was prepared and staffed by low-level staff and went all the way up to the deputy minister—a briefing note would be a case in point—and submitted to the minister, you could not argue that this is ministerial records. It's departmental records and the minister got a copy. Under the access act, you may not get the copy of the minister's records but you will get a copy of the briefing note itself.
My point is that if you leave it as it is, the office of the minister will grow. It will take over the correspondence unit. It's going to take over the policy unit. It's going to take over the public affairs unit. And then you're going to start creating records inside the minister's office. I'm not giving a recipe to make it better; in fact it's going to make it worse.