I believe that for a system to be transparent, there are two important factors. The first is a legislative framework that establishes all the obligations and practices for proactive disclosure.
There is nothing stopping the next government from rolling back, curtailing or making exemptions from all of these practices of proactive disclosure. You should put it in the law and make it painful to repeal and painful to backslide.
I think adding proactive disclosure to the act would be helpful. I agree with Mr. LaPointe that giving the commissioner a help desk function would be useful to assist Canadians in making requests. I think it's very important that the act be extended to taxpayer-funded political staff.