Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The point I want to make is that there is a legal obligation that is placed upon the public service, as a non-partisan party, to protect privacy. That is why this government adopted the ATIP guidelines and rules. Those rules should be sufficient to provide the information the government is seeking, and those rules should be sufficient or should be relied upon for a fair, equitable, unbiased, non-partisan review of the information that should be excluded for the very reasons that were raised earlier: to protect privacy, cabinet interests, national security, and all of the specifics that are identified in the ATIP legislation.
I don't understand why we feel we need to go beyond that. If so, then why don't we review the ATIP procedures, the ATIP legislation, and make that more encompassing? It was satisfactory when it was adopted. It was adopted by a majority of government. Why should we change that? Those guidelines are legitimate and specific, and they protect the interests of the government and of all the people we necessarily need to deal with, such as other municipalities and other provinces and territories. I think we have an obligation to protect their rights, and I believe that can be done by an independent group of non-partisan public service officers.