There are two critical factors in the decision.
One is that you can't be held properly to account, as government should be held fully to account to the public, if the decisions and activities of government are not properly documented. There's nothing to release. You can't ask individuals involved to release their thoughts or their conclusions. The decisions of government and all the day-to-day activities of government that result in decisions, particularly those involving expenditure, public money, and the imposition of taxation, must and should be documented.
When we looked at it, we thought that it didn't seem to be the right place to put those obligations when there exists a Management of Information Act, spelling out in detail exactly how all of the offices of the government and the public servants involved are supposed to document information that exists already. We weren't satisfied that the duty to document was adequately expressed in it. All we emphasized was that there should be a statutory provision for a clear duty to document and to maintain proper documents.
We felt that the Access to Information Act wasn't the right place to put it. That covered a different area altogether, and given that there was a management of information statute already in existence, that was the proper place for it to be.
Do you want to add anything to that, Doug?