Perhaps I didn't express myself properly. I haven't had a case as a complaint in which this issue has arisen.
As I expressed before, my concern is that it may be occurring, but it's not being disclosed either to the requester or to my office through a complaints process that the real reason for not disclosing is that the House has asserted the parliamentary privilege. I haven't seen that. It is disquieting.
I'll give you an example within my own office of an issue that arises from time to time. When I prepare report cards, the report cards are always tabled in Parliament as a special report to Parliament under my legislation, which is very specific in terms of how I give special reports to Parliament.
Before the report cards are finalized, I send them to the institutions that are the subject of these report cards for them to review and to check for accuracy of facts and so on, and make some corrections of factual information if need be. It has occurred that someone, an institution, has said we have had a request for this information. I say that it's protected by parliamentary privilege, that it's a report I'm preparing for Parliament and I'm an agent of Parliament. However, it's very awkward, because there is no such thing.
Probably in the future I'll have to do these report cards under a formal investigative process to avoid this issue occurring. It shouldn't be. There should be a provision for that so that Parliament tells institutions, should you have information under your control, that the House or the Senate somehow has been certified to be protected by parliamentary privilege, and you have the right under this scheme to refuse disclosure. That's what we are looking at.