Yes. As I mentioned earlier, there is an established narrative when it comes to the history of access to information that we have gone from a global leader to a laggard. It's this idea that, over time, freedom of information has eroded in Canada.
While there certainly have been practices that have been adopted since the Access to Information Act took effect that make access more difficult, it is important to understand that the legislation itself was built to be broken and was fundamentally flawed, and it was recognized as being fundamentally flawed when it was introduced.
I think we create the mythology that somehow there was a golden time when we had more freedom of information under the current legislation, but that is not correct. On this point, I think I differ with Professor Drapeau who, if I understand his testimony correctly, seems to be of the opinion that the problem is not with the act but with the culture.
I agree that it's with the culture, but it's also with the act and it's also with the very structure of our political system.