Currently, the act is requiring institutions to respond within 30 days of an access request or to ask for an extension. For 33% of these requests, that timeline is not being met. There are all kinds of factors. Consultations with other institutions' taking way too long is one of them. Mismanagement of information, resulting in huge amounts of information having to be accessed and huge numbers of documents having to be processed, is another one. There's a lot that needs to be done to the system. As I said in my submission in 2020, a lot needs to be done to this act to modernize it. Reducing consultations to a certain amount of time would be one of the ways to reduce timelines, as well.
