Thank you.
The amendment is identical, because, like Mr. Cullen, I'm very persuaded by the evidence of failing to strike the right balance for transparency and the recommendations of the Information Commissioner. These do hang together. They are found in her recommendations 18, 19, and 20.
This amendment speaks to the suggestion she made in recommendation 18. When we look at the actual precision of underscoring that for greater certainty, this application is de novo, is a new proceeding; that is, it goes to the heart of where she finds the problem in moving from the model we have now to a new model, which she has labelled—the result of what's being proposed in Bill C-58—as a regression.
In an effort to try to improve the legislation as.... I'm so impressed with the work that the Information Commissioner did. On so many points, as Mr. Kent has mentioned, she found that this bill, which was supposed to be improving our access to information in Canada, is actually going in the opposite direction.
I can see which way this is going to go, but I appreciate the chance to speak to it, Mr. Chair.
I would urge that the committee support deleting the clarity that insists this is de novo review.