There were some high-profile cases that we looked at in committee a little over a year ago now. We had claims that an IT manager accidentally disappeared all the emails that he had ever read or sent. He had just enough technical know-how to make them disappear, but not to know how he did it when he came before committee. We know that this was in a committee investigation about evidence of fraud in procurement. It was incredibly serious. Civil actions have been taken by the government. Criminal action has been initiated. It was only because we kept tugging on strings to get a little more information, not because the information was available by default or by right to parliamentarians or to Canadians.
You mentioned the Auditor General. With 85% of the records, as you say, being transitory and there not being a duty to document, we also have a greater ability—and I think opportunity—to provide more transparency to Canadians.
I notice that you observed the Privy Council Office's testimony in the previous hour. They talk about plans to use artificial intelligence to speed up the access to information responses.
Should we not keep more information, so that we can be more transparent with Canadians as government deals with larger and larger sums of money and stretches into more places in their everyday lives?