A 1997 green paper by Parliament on access to information examined various options. Should we have an ombudsman-type commissioner or should we do like the States did? We elected to have an Information Commissioner.
The Office of the Information Commissioner of those days, with Mr. Grace and John Reid and so on, was a different organization from what we have today. In those days, almost 90% of the staff were investigators. They investigated. They went to the organizations to look at the documents and to see if they were there and properly released. Then we moved the Information Commission to Gatineau. They do everything by email or phone. Most of the staff are now doing administrative material. It's a very heavy-set management structure that takes away the number of investigators. I would look at that also.