Mr. Duff Conacher at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

I'll just say you cannot fulfill a promise to be open by default with this act in place.

The government is essentially saying, we're not going to keep that promise until the last year of our mandate with a possible a bill in 2018, and passing it just before the election. So they're saying, we're not going to keep that promise in this mandate. The rhetoric of open by default is not going to change the way that government operates nor the culture.