Yes. I will also just mention that one of the exclusions under our legislation applies to officers of legislation when they're engaged in performing their operational functions. With respect to the member's question concerning the Ethics Commissioner, in Alberta, for example, the operational records that are associated with the ethics commissioner's investigation are not subject to the FOIP Act. They are excluded from the FOIP Act. However, with respect to other types of records such as cabinet and treasury board confidences, we have issued orders. We have had the ability to review those records to be able to reassure the applicant and the public that the exception to access has been properly claimed.
That is not across the board. We have a matter that it is currently in front of the office and, in fact, in front of the Supreme Court coming up on April 1, which has to do with records for which solicitor-client privilege has been claimed. Solicitor-client privilege is an exception to access under our legislation. Certainly, in the last couple of years we've not only had difficulty obtaining the records to review claims where that exception applies, but also sufficient information. We have developed a separate protocol so that we don't necessarily need to see the records but can in fact obtain sufficient information to be able to confirm that a claimed privilege applies. When we are neither able to see the records to verify the exception has been claimed nor obtain enough information to be able to verify that claim, it's very difficult to provide the service to fulfill our mandate, which is to either order that the records be released or confirm that the records don't need to be released.