I too support the amendment, including the ATIP language. The OGGO committee voted in favour of including the ATIP provisions, and I think all parties agreed with that. I too have concerns about overly redacted documents. I think democracy in a nutshell is that the unelected bureaucrats are held accountable to the elected individuals—us—and we too are then held accountable to the population in an election.
Certainly to have that accountability you need to have transparency. Having said that, I think there are actually some genuine, good reasons for excluding some information and not making some of it public. An example is personal information that could be detrimental to individuals. Especially this is going to be more of the case when it comes to the motion on chronic care homes, but there is also information relating to our relationship with the provinces. There may be some sensitive information there. In managing this pandemic, I think we have had good relationships with the provinces. I think we want to continue to have good relationships, and we don't want to jeopardize that by forcing ourselves to reveal all documents, some of which potentially may affect our relationships with the provinces, and that is included in the ATIP provisions.
The ATIP provisions seem to me to be reasonable. Now, if it comes back that it's overly redacted, then I agree with the opposition. This is a change from the previous February motion, and hopefully this will give us better results in terms of not overly redacted documents.