Certainly, I am adamantly opposed to a change in my power to issue orders. I understand that there are rumours, if I can call them that, or discussions about the importance or risk of continuing to have orders. I showed you the statistics: Only about 8% of all access to information requests that come to us and are reviewed result in an order. There were approximately 250 orders in the past year. It is a power that enables us to finalize a process with the ultimate goal of providing answers to applicants. I don't think we can go back and remove that authority from the office of the commissioner or from future commissioners.
This is something we can debate when there is a real legislative review. Right now, we're still waiting, but it's something I look forward to in order to be able to make my recommendations on this.
