Thanks again, Mr. Chair. As you said, when Mr. Cullen's motion is disposed of, then I won't be able to speak to this one.
I will speak, very briefly, to the difference between judicial review of the commissioner's order and what Bill C-58 presents, and why Bill C-58's dealing with judicial review, having a review not of the commissioner's order but of a government decision, is a regressive step, in the words of the Information Commissioner.
As someone who used to practise law, the difference is really clear to me. Judicial review of an order means the record that was there when the commissioner made her decision is the record that will be examined in the review. What's being proposed here is that the court will look at a situation de novo—clean slate, no record. It creates no incentive whatsoever for an institution, if they want to hide information and delay release, to move forward. In fact, with a de novo hearing, they can stall. They can provide new information and new arguments.
In other words, it's a significant regression over where we are now. The point of this bill, I thought, was to improve the situation for access to information. I do hope that the commissioner's recommendations around the orders being reviewed will be given serious consideration by the government.