The issue was that we asked for detailed information on federal employees to determine the cost of the federal legislation with respect to pay equity. We were told that the information would not be provided to us because it was a cabinet confidence. It was probably included in a memorandum to cabinet or a Treasury Board submission and was therefore a cabinet confidence.
That's the explanation we were given. We went around it by going through other sources of information. We used publicly available information, but we were denied the information we were asking for because it was deemed a cabinet confidence. When we get that, we can't even look at the data to make our own assessment as to whether it is really cabinet confidence. It's off limits for us.