There would be a set-up period, and of course there would have to be a time for the commissioner's office to change because it changes the nature of the office to one that is actually quasi-judicial. But what would happen is that the commission, rather than saying, “Dear Ministry, we really think you should give Mr. Levant his records”, would then be able say, “Here's my order. You have 30 days to provide Mr. Levant with his records, minus pages 23 to 27, which are law enforcement”, or whatever the commissioner finds after a hearing is legitimately applied.
It would look, probably, hopefully, something like the B.C. model, rather than the U.K. model where if the minister decides or has a feeling that “I really don't think that would be good for government”, or maybe “I really don't think it would be good for my government that this information comes out, so I'm going to overrule the commissioner”, this is something that's been put into the proposals.
It was not there in the Liberal Party's platform, and I think people, during the election, would have been surprised to see that. We will give the commissioner order-making power. Put the minister and/or cabinet to have an override. I don't think it would be quite as attractive to the people of Canada, and we're hoping that it won't be attractive to this committee. We think this is the wrong road for reasons set out in our thing, and we hope that you will prevent that from happening.