Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for agreeing to appear before us today.
My questions will first be more specifically for the representatives of the Department of National Defence.
In one particular case, it took more than three years to respond to an access for information request. To justify that delay, which it deemed reasonable, the department defended itself in the federal court, invoking the circumstances, and the number of files, documents and pages that were requested.
Do you still maintain that the three-year delay in responding to an access to information request was reasonable? Is there another reason for it aside from the fact that the department is different from others and more complex?