Thank you very much for that question. I'll sum it up by saying that it's coming from the darkness into the light, and I'm not talking about the sunshine list that's currently being debated in St. John's.
I'm not going to take long with this question. I know we're short on time.
The initial act that we had in this province was probably biting on the heels of B.C. It was a very good piece of legislation, but it tended to be eroded and there was a trend that government wanted to give out less information. Steps were taken to.... For example, we went to court on the commissioner's ability to review solicitor-client claim records, and we won in the Court of Appeal. That was almost immediately overturned by government, whereby we couldn't review those again.
Things became very rough politically for the government. The general public were outraged, and it was that groundswell and that current that led to.... In fact I'll say it: one of the previous premiers said to me that Bill 29 was the worst thing that government had ever done, and I said, “I agree, man.”
When Premier Marshall, at the time, came out wanting to move forward with the review, it was like again coming out into the sunshine, and we've been very happy ever since. A lot more work was generated for our office, and we're hoping to get the appropriate level of resourcing to deal with it, but we have an excellent act, an excellent piece of legislation that the people now enjoy.