We are one of the only countries in the Commonwealth that does not have an agency independent of the government to review cabinet confidence documents. Like I said earlier, requesters understand they are not entitled to those documents. It's difficult for me to tell them whether or not the redacted documents are cabinet confidence, so they will often scoop that out of the complaint.
I saw a case where cabinet confidence was mistakenly imposed on documents that were not. We also see that with legal opinions sometimes. They use legal opinion—the exemption in section 23—for documents about discussions between lawyers, or about policy advice that's not legal advice.
I always thought that having someone independent of the government to review those documents, so you can tell the requester, “Trust me, it's cabinet confidence”, would increase the trust of Canadians in our government. There's nothing worse than being told you cannot—