I'll defer to Mr. Wernick in a second here, but in my experience in dealing with the law now, dating back more than 30 years, I would say there still exists a very strong culture of protecting the bureaucracy and in some cases protecting the political masters. I understand that is a very broad generalization, and probably very unfair to a great number of people who I think are excellent advocates of disclosure within the system and are basically fighting for public access to the right to know. But in my experience at least anecdotally and on the basis of the thousands of requests that I've had some kind of hand in, it still is a culture that prevails.
