Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for being here.
My questions are going to be in French, and there is simultaneous interpretation available.
Mr. Stirling, I will start with you.
To your knowledge, do you, in the United Kingdom, have the equivalent to our Access to Information Act? In the United Kingdom, are there any problems with access to information that get in the way of implementing an open data policy?
In Canada, 35% of the 50,000 annual requests were not answered within the established timeframe. At a previous meeting, we also discussed the problem of the $5 cost.
The NDP is of the view that you cannot be all about transparency on the one hand, and secrecy on the other. Apart from an open data policy, should the Access to Information Act also be improved?