I do not have a study on that. The comparative study we have comes from the Centre for Law and Democracy, which did an evaluation of the Access to Information Act. Again, that was an evaluation based on certain criteria in the legislative framework. It does not address implementation, or the infrastructure in place to respond to the requests and so forth.
It is very difficult to compare countries. Some countries have more progressive laws, but those laws do not necessarily result in more disclosure of information. India has a very progressive law, but does not manage its information. That system is practically impossible to manage.
In 2002, when Mexico passed access to information legislation, it put a system in place on a very advanced technology platform. When it comes to technological infrastructure, Mexico is very organized. When someone requests information from an institution, that institution responds electronically on the same technology platform on which the complaint was filed. Mexico has a commission, which has very strict deadlines for making a decision, but I am not sure whether Mexico does what we do. We do a page by page review of the file to determine whether what was redacted by the institutions was appropriate or not. In that sense, our system is in a way more sophisticated.
The other thing is that we have a lot of information and documents in Canada because we have good information management. In Mexico, before President Fox, there were no documents. It is therefore very hard to make a comparison in terms of efficiency.
However, we might look at the provinces. When you do your review work, I suggest you invite commissioners who have order powers relative to the experience in an ombudsman model because in our experience, application of the act and processing complaints becomes much more efficient.