Well, there certainly has been some progress made, but the fact that the Office of the Prime Minister and ministers are no longer covered, as the Prime Minister promised to do in the 2015 election campaign, is a failing.
The commissioner's power to order the release of government records is most welcome here. However, the commissioner, Suzanne Legault, in her report found five serious shortcomings in that power—which are mostly absent in the rest of the world that I've studied—such as the de novo review, the lack of enforcement, etc.
It was a start, but of course we still need the cabinet records to be subject to the commissioner's review, and also, no longer a complete exclusion from the act—as is the case in only one other country in the world, South Africa—but rather a mandatory exemption, which it was in the first version of the ATIP law in 1979.
Yes, of the Harper government's eight pledges in 2006 for ATI reform, seven and a half were not fulfilled. There was some coverage of some foundations and Crown corporations—