We've been talking a lot along the lines of the transparency of information. I have heard in the defence committee, of course, the stat that Canadians classify 70% more information than the Americans do
Could we talk whether this bill gets to that idea of transparency and whether maybe we should be doing this another way? My understanding is that there are—and what I've certainly used—ombuds' offices within Parliament. There are officers of Parliament. There's the Auditor General. There are commissioners and so on. Instead of this way, would it maybe make more sense in terms of transparency to look at if it's possible to give those actors within this parliamentary context more teeth, more responsibilities, greater access to information and report directly to Parliament, those sorts of things?
I'd like to hear from both witnesses, I guess Mr. Wark first and then Dr. Leuprecht.