That is not the subject of any specific recommendation in my report. However, I discussed reforms proposed at the time in view of changes to the Access to Information Act. If I remember correctly, the party that is presently in power had intended to be a transparent government. The desire was to be transparent and I had hoped that the changes suggested at the time by Mr. John Reid, who was then Information Commissioner, would be adopted. There have been some changes and, today, the Act applies to virtually all Crown corporations.
The other hoped for changes have been looked at for two years now. I do not know why. Honestly, if the government thinks that Canadians will accept that it not be transparent, it is very badly mistaken. In the thousands of responses and comments that we received in the course of our work, everyone, without exception, was in favour of greater transparency. Everyone was of the belief that the time has come to know everything about the workings of the government.
It is perhaps simplistic on my part, but if you have done nothing wrong, then why hide it?