Thank you very much.
Last June, the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics conducted a study on access to information in Canada. Among the recommendations that were made, there was mention of two departments with problems with access to information—Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and National Defence. One of the recommendations was to create an expedited system for access to information requests related to sexual misconduct, among other things.
That recommendation was not accepted by the minister. It was argued that requests should not be given different status based on the identity of requesters.
However, given that these are two particularly problematic departments, would it not be a good idea to have an expedited processing channel based not on the identity of the requester, but on the subject?
People's confidence in the system must be restored, especially when it comes to National Defence, since that is often where things go wrong, unfortunately.