Evidence of meeting #15 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was received.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Director, Access to Information and Privacy, Canada Revenue Agency
I share that view. It would be difficult to speak to the merits of such an initiative at this stage.
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Director, Access to Information and Privacy, Shared Services Canada
That would be difficult to assess, but I personally don't expect that there would be a huge increase. There hasn't been. I worked at the Department of Foreign Affairs for a number of years. There are other channels for other countries to obtain information from the Government of Canada. I don't think they would necessarily be using the Access to Information Act . There has been talk of universal access for the past 30 years, so I'm all for it, but I don't think it would have a huge direct impact on our current situation.
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Corporate Secretary, Corporate Secretariat, Department of Employment and Social Development
I have nothing further to add to my colleagues' comments.
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Conservative
Pat Kelly Conservative Calgary Rocky Ridge, AB
Well, my next question is probably not answerable in that length of time, so in the interest of keeping our speed up, unless Matt has anything to say, I'm done.
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Liberal
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Blaine Calkins
That's non-debatable.
(Motion agreed to)
Thank you very much to our witnesses. We appreciate your coming here. We will take your comments into consideration. We look forward to producing a report. I encourage you to follow the progress of the committee and to keep us up to date, and to make sure we have captured everything that was said here perfectly with our report. Thank you very much.
The meeting is adjourned.
