Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you, Madame Legault and your team, for being here today.
I just wanted to draw to the attention of members the paper you circulated regarding your role and jurisdiction. Clearly, on page 1, it states, “The mandate of the Information Commissioner--to receive and investigate complaints--is prescribed in sections 30 through 37 of the Access to Information Act”. And then you highlight that again in your concluding statement, where you point out that “The Information Commissioner's jurisdiction extends only to cases where a complaint has been brought pursuant to the Access to Information Act.”
My question relates to the total impact of access to information requests that our government deals with across the government, in addition to crown corporations, and so on.
Could you compare for our committee a rough estimate as to the total number of access to information requests that have been handled perhaps in the last two years, 2009 to 2010, and compare it to 1999 to 2000, somewhere in there?