As I mentioned, a record high number of access to information requests were received in 2012-2013, close to 54,000 requests, a 27% increase in the number of requests over the previous year. There were over 10,000 extra requests, an increase of about 2 million pages, for a total of over 6 million pages.
It is important to make it clear that the process was neither set out by members of Parliament nor by members of the cabinet. It is a governmental process; I am therefore in no position to impose a political situation on Ms. Charette or the department.
It's not a political process; it's a governmental process. We treat it as one that is non-political in that sense.