I would generally agree with that, although I would add that I think there's a difference between the Privacy Act and the Access to Information Act in this. One can understand that you have cabinet confidences and things like that, but there shouldn't be a system that would allow an office within the functioning of government to collect information and use it in a way that otherwise would be completely unlawful. You end up with a complete zone of non-regulation in that particular place. You wouldn't want to, for example, set up a system that would encourage a program to be operated out of a minister's office in order to avoid the functioning of a quasi-constitutional statute.
On September 29th, 2016. See this statement in context.