Thank you very much for the question.
It should be stated that ministers' offices and the Prime Minister's office will fall under the act with this legislation. For the first time, we are legislating the proactive disclosure. Even though this was a practice that began under Prime Minister Martin and continued, we're expanding what will be considered to be documents that will be required to be proactively disclosed.
One of the key things that will be disclosed are mandate letters, for example, and that's required by legislation. Prior to this government coming into power, mandate letters were never disclosed. In fact, they were extraordinarily secretive. Only the minister, and maybe the deputy minister and very few officials, had access to the contents of them.
This is an important step that enables parliamentarians and Canadians to hold governments to account. Furthermore, we're talking about briefing notes, transition binders, QP binders, and committee binders that Canadians will have access to. All of these things are some of the most requested items by Canadians. We took a look to see what the items are that Canadians are most interested in, how we can provide a more efficient system so it's more usable for the user and the person who is interested, and doing it in a way that's cost-effective as well.