One of the examples that has been the subject of much discussion here, both in the access to information context as well as in the privacy context, is around the exemption to access to information where there's personal information involved, as an example. One of the pivotal points is how to decide what the conditions are for releasing that information, despite the fact that personal information may be involved.
Currently, the Privacy Act provides under paragraph 8(2)(m) that personal information can be disclosed if, in the minister's discretion or in the delegated decision-maker's discretion, there's a public interest in disclosing that information. There is already a discretion that exists. The question is whether that starting premise of privacy as the default is the proper premise. We think it is and we think that, certainly in the interest of privacy, we should start from that premise, but that's not to say that there isn't room for discretion to disclose when there's a public interest to do so.