Thank you.
I'm going to begin by saying to Commissioner Maynard that you're in good company when the cabinet refuses to hand over information. I'll share with you that, as members of Parliament, constitutionally considered the grand inquest of the nation, even with our own parliamentary privileges and very well-established common law in that regard, they stonewall us too when it comes to basic information. We seem to be in a culture where all of a sudden everything is “cabinet confidence” and everything is “client-solicitor privilege” when they're both the client and solicitor.
As the Information Commissioner, you don't have the authority to access records that contain cabinet confidences that the head of an institution has refused to disclose. On jurisdiction over part 2 of the Access to Information Act and published decisions made in regard to the applications, I think you mentioned that they can decline the access requests. As a result, you've put forth recommendations addressing these and further limitations to your powers as commissioner.
Can you expand on how these limitations to your powers impact your ability to ensure the access regime is effective in delivering its mandate?