I'll use the analogy of government scientists. A journalist called several of them and talked to the unions recently. The directive was given soon after the election: you can talk to journalists. The Treasury Board policy hasn't changed. People can be disciplined, up to and including firing, for violating the Treasury Board policy. They're not going to change the culture until the rule changes, so the rule changes have to come.
We've gone back to 1994 in terms of talking about the rhetoric of changing the Access to Information Act. The problems were known in 1986. That's 30 years; these things have been well known for 30 years now, and there is no reason to wait. Because it is 2016, we need the real change now.
What I'm worried about is that in 2018 the government will be saying, as Minister Clement did in December of 2014, “Oh yes, this act needs to be changed, but it's too late to get a bill through.” There were six more months at that time, and it wasn't too late: several bills went through Parliament in the first six months of 2015.
That's what I'm worried about. There is just no reason to wait at all.