Our report indicates that nothing would be terrible about it. We recommended a much more open regime, and the structure we put in place in the legislation we drafted provides for a much more open regime. However, it doesn't provide for a totally open regime.
Government still has to function and has to function efficiently. It sometimes makes it a great deal more difficult if, every hour on the hour, government has to report to the public exactly what it's thinking and that it may or may not go in this direction or another direction. It would create a great deal of confusion and result in public chaos, as well as governmental chaos.
Some level of confidentiality in the process of government is essential to the efficient working of a cabinet system of government in a parliamentary system. You have to have that.
There are also certain things like the following. For instance, you can't have judges' notes and drafts of decisions released. You can't require that they be released. You can't have police investigations, prosecutors' decisions—preliminary assessments and decisions—released. If you do, you run the risk of brandishing about people's names, who could end up being determined to be totally innocent. That's grossly unfair to people. You can't do that. There are certain things that must be kept confidential.
However, the overwhelming majority of the information that government possesses can be made public, if not immediately, then on a very timely basis after the decisions are made. It's more difficult to have the process during which matters are being considered before decisions are made.... You can't be making that public. That would make government very difficult. However, once decisions are made, the overwhelming majority should be made public if we're to have a proper democracy.