Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In addition to there being real problems around failing to meet the statutory deadline set out in the act, the commissioner, in her meeting with the clerk, noted that there were other problems with the handling of access to information requests. For example, she noted that work that needs to be done to implement an order—an order that she needed to issue because the PCO didn't follow the law—should and could have been done prior to a complaint being submitted.
In other words, not only is the PCO not meeting the statutory deadline, but there are instances, according to the commissioner, where the PCO is effectively sitting on access to information requests, not doing anything until a complaint arises, and then still not doing anything, because it was necessary for the commissioner to issue an order.
Do you think it's acceptable to sit on access to information requests? We're talking, after all, about what you've correctly acknowledged to be a quasi-constitutional right.