Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Dawson, I'm very new to this committee, and it's a pleasure to be here today to hear you bring forward comments on your report here.
I have a couple of questions and they're following along the same line as Madam Ratansi's comments around confidentiality.
In your report you do speak quite lengthily about confidentiality, and in that section you do express some frustration, I guess, to say the least. One of the statements you make that kind of jumped out at me was “This situation may sometimes lead the public and Members to surmise that I do not take requests seriously....” That kind of troubles me, I guess, to be very frank with you, the statements you make, that members might not take your requests seriously.
I guess where I'm going with this, and it's following up with some of your earlier responses around certain instances, is how do you feel? Surely you're not suggesting here that releasing information would go anywhere towards making people feel better-served by your role. And I apologize if I seem to be leading here, but I'm trying to grasp how you feel you could rectify the situation to give better confidence to the members, and the public for that matter, and still respect the confidentiality that's expected of you by the individuals in question if there is a complaint or an investigation undertaken by you.
I'll use myself, for example, as a member of Parliament. If you undertook an investigation of some situation regarding me and some information were to come out, you referred to information that's already in the public domain, but that doesn't necessarily mean the information that's in the public domain is correct. The information that you deal with is actual factual information. I guess I'm a little perplexed at this point in time by the comments, by the statement, and what you feel would be a better situation for you, as a commissioner, to be in.