Closing within 30 days, or closing within the time we have available to us—because we can take extensions for specific periods of time based on volume, complexity, the amount of consultation we can do....
We can take extensions beyond the 30 days to be able to deliver the response. Those would not be completed within 30 days, but from our perspective they would be completed in the amount of time we estimated we would need to do them. When we do an extension, we advise the person who has made the application that for such and such reasons we are doing an extension and expect that the information will be coming out at a later date.
With that information put in place, we in fact are meeting what I would call our completion date in the range of 78% to 80% of the time, but in accordance with the regulation, it's 30 days. This is one of the complexities that goes around this sort of activity.
The nature of the requests often requires us to consult with other government departments. It will require us to consult with the lawyers with respect to cabinet confidences to make sure we aren't breaking them. It may require going through thousands and thousands of pages. We just sent a release out this past week on one of those more complex ones. We had more than 6,000 pages.
Just the time involved in reviewing that material at the working level at which the documents were produced in order to make a recommendation as to what can be included and what can't, and then in reviewing it a second time through our experts, and then determining whether we have to go out to anybody else to confirm that we can release the information.... That's the sort of complexity that leads to the amount of time we have to take.