Nathaniel Erskine-Smith at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

I'm with you, and I agree with respect to the commissioner's powers to.... To put it another way, there's a difference between an injury-based model whereby the commissioner can review information and assess whether it's in the public interest to disclose the information overall, based on an assessment of the balance of interest. On the other hand, there could be mandatory exemptions whereby the commissioner, even upon review, might say that this does fall within cabinet confidence and, therefore, despite the injury test, it falls within these parameters and it's going to be excluded. To what extent did you look at the injury-based model versus mandatory exemptions? Yes, review, but if they fall within those four corners, exclude it.