Thank you very much, Chair and committee, for the invitation to appear before you again during your review of access to information.
I'm going to be brief. You have Democracy Watch's submission, setting out 18 key changes. I won't go through those changes again. They can be summarized very simply. Apply the law to all publicly funded and public-purpose institutions. Close all the secrecy loopholes. Require a duty to document. Create records of actions and decisions. Strengthen enforcement, including the independence of the commissioner, and empower the commissioner to actually impose penalties for violations of any of the provisions of the act.