I have made some notes on this, thinking it was one of the interesting things we did. We mentioned, as I referred to earlier, that the public interest includes not only health and safety or environmental factors—chemicals in a river or something like that—but also good governance, which is part of our constitution, namely, peace, order, and good governance; transparency, which is a more recent notion; and accountability, which is certainly part of the private sector privacy act federally, PIPEDA. Accountability of government has been taken up across the world, so there's accountability for your actions and accountability for what you have done. That accountability of government to citizens is part of the public interest override. Finally, I noted in reviewing this that it includes ensuring the honesty of public officials. Sometimes it's in the public interest for the public to know what public officials are doing. I think we meant both elected and non-elected officials in that.
On May 31st, 2016. See this statement in context.