You said in your testimony, in your opening statement, that PCO is doing everything it can to meet its legislative deadlines. Well, let's look at some of the numbers and some of the cases. The commissioner met with the Clerk of the Privy Council, Mr. Sabia, on November 12. In a backgrounder that she prepared following the meeting, detailing what was discussed, she noted to Mr. Sabia that all of the requests that received orders to respond had been in PCO's backlog for quite some time.
In fact, of the 25 orders that she had issued this year—it's now at 46, by the way, so in a matter of months, it has doubled, but it was 25 at that time—20 relate to delay complaints on requests received by PCO in 2023 or 2024. Now, the deadline is 30 days. Here we have instances where requests were not met, not for a few weeks or a few months, but in some cases for up to two years.
How can you say, in the face of that, that the PCO is doing everything it can to meet its legislative deadlines? How can you say, as you did moments ago, that you have no idea why the commissioner would be issuing such orders in such circumstances? What is she supposed to do?