No, there is no legal duty to document in Alberta's legislation, and yes, I believe there should be. That was part of the recommendations made to the government's review of the FOIP Act in 2013. Like the others, we did sign on to the joint resolution, issued by all information commissioners across Canada, calling for a duty to document. This issue has arisen in Alberta, more recently in January of this year. We issued an investigation that had to do with the destruction of records following last year's provincial election.
There is no oversight of the records management program. There are no penalties for destroying records. If there are no penalties and there's no duty to actually have records, then there are no consequences, and I don't think that's appropriate.