The answer is yes, absolutely.
The access to information regime is the only legal way for an individual like you or me, or an organization, to access information controlled by the government. It's the only available legal avenue. People can submit requests for all sorts of reasons: medical, economic or industrial. They can request information for reasons related to tourism, civil proceedings and so on.
If people don't have that right or if they can't exercise it within the prescribed time frame, they are negatively impacted.