I can tell you that we're all fighting for the same consultants and experienced people, because the professionals in the world of access to information are limited. All the institutions are having the same problem as I am, so we are all looking for people who have the knowledge. Especially for me, if I only have a year, I don't want somebody I have to spend six months training. We have enough to train them on the case management system and the technology we're using at the office.
However, if they can come in and know exactly how to interpret the Access to Information Act and deal with the institutions.... Often they still have contact with these institutions, so we make sure we use those consultants who are retired. We'll give retired coordinators from DND files from DND, because they know the people there and the types of files, and they can work on those types of files.
It's a very difficult thing, though, to hire people for one year, keep them, and make sure they can close enough files in that one year, appropriately using the funding that has been provided.