That's a very astute question by the honourable member, because that's exactly it. Our business model was predicated on a five-year time span. The question I'm asking myself and part of the analysis we're doing this summer is whether that is too long a period for Canadians to have an Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada, which is in a position to deal with the cases. At the end of the day, when we start the year with a caseload of between 300 and 500, we are going to become a lot more efficient at handling our cases, because the number is going to be less.
Obviously, managing 2,000 cases every year is taxing all of our investigative function, because in order to be really efficient, the more we know our cases, the better we are at dealing with them; and the less of them we have, the faster we can get to them.
So it's exactly the right question to ask, and that's the question I'm asking myself. I'm analyzing whether I can do that faster within the complement I have. I can share with this committee that my objective for this year in terms of cases closed, to the breakdown of my employees, is 2,400, which is where I'd like to be, but I'm getting some serious concerns from my staff at this point.