Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here.
Mr. Rochon, I think you were right when you said that access to information is essential to public trust in our institutions. It has to be well managed. It has to be accessible. The Prime Minister talked about it during his election campaign. You said that at the outset. In fact, everyone who comes here tells us about transparency and proactivity.
What strikes me is that the commissioner in charge of this, since it is her job, tells us that she is seeing a decline and that her office is no longer fulfilling its role because it is up against too much bureaucracy. What's more, we read in a letter that you want to double-check her work, but we see that it's because you consider some orders abusive.
If this is so important, I'm just trying to figure out why you shouldn't rely on this person the most and ask what kind of help she needs, since she's obviously the person defending access to information.
Why does she feel like she is constantly up against the bureaucracy? Here, you say that you respect her and that you meet with her, but she came here to tell us that she doesn't have enough funding and that she's up against the bureaucracy. Who doesn't understand how to have a dialogue?