Thank you, Madam Chair.
Good afternoon.
You are in a fragile situation. Indeed, we never know how many complaints there will be in a given year. There may be more and there may be fewer. However, even though there may be fewer complaints, they may represent more work, depending on the scope of the complaint. So you are, to some extent, standing on shifting sand.
Your budget must enable the Office of the Information Commissioner to work effectively, meaning, in line with the requests. We know that additional budgets are allocated during the course of the year. I am referring to the infamous (A) and (B) supplementary estimates budgets.
I do not want to lead you onto a slippery slope, but is Treasury Board aware of the situation, does it know how you operate? If you were able to demonstrate that you required more money to respond to the requests, would this still be possible, would there be any openness? Or would this instead be an extremely time-consuming and difficult endeavour?