In Alberta and British Columbia, for example, the process is clearly more formal. There are more opportunities for parties to be able to see what the other side is saying and what other parties are submitting by way of argument. That, of course, is part of procedural fairness.
What happens in an information commissioner's office or a privacy commissioner's office in the ombudsman model is that there is more flexibility. If an issue comes up in the course of an investigation in Alberta or British Columbia, then it is almost like going back to the start. You have to do a bunch of notifications and so on, and start over. There are additional time periods.
With the ombudsman model, if in the course of an investigation another important issue comes up, you provide a more informal notification to the public body. You give them a shorter timeline to provide any additional response. We would see that as being fair, but it is not as rigid a sense of procedural fairness as what you get with an administrative tribunal.