Thank you, Chair.
Of course, because the three amendments, improvements to the bill, hang together, work together, I realize I'm not going to necessarily have the satisfaction of understanding why colleagues are voting against it, with a small caveat. The intention remains to give the Information Commissioner the power that she needs, in this case to get the information we need as policy-makers to make decisions.
I would again refer my colleagues to some of the legislation recently introduced around violence against women, which was entirely achieved under access to information, which under Bill C-58 could have been deemed as frivolous requests from Ms. Doolittle at The Globe and Mail. The reason that the national inquiry into murdered and missing aboriginal women actually has a figure as to how many murdered and missing women have disappeared in this country was also done only through access to information. This bill would also threaten the release of that information. There's also the transfer of Afghan detainees. These are things that matter.
I know that this is not a piece of legislation that we have natural and many constituencies to, yet all constituencies are affected by the ability to get information from government. That's the only way you can hold government to account. Otherwise, it is anecdote and conjecture.
I won't re-emphasize the point about the court's order-making powers. That was established in my previous arguments.
I will turn it over to Ms. May.