Fairly simply, there are certain things that the state has no business knowing about, or if they are to know about it they need certain restrictions or rules. That's a lot different from public policy issues, where the public has the need for that information. There has to be accountability for it.
One of the things I was trying to draw a parallel to, since I'm back again, is with proactive disclosure agreements and so on. On the Privacy Act side, section 48 is about collection of information. As a result, even back in the 1980s, there were many thousands of personal information data-sharing agreements among different departments, the provinces, internationally, but on the access side, almost zippo. There's no suggestion of getting on and agreeing to transparency, so we have a dichotomy there.
I won't go further, other than to say that I think the two are compatible in certain ways, but the only way they're going to function better is to separate.