Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Drapeau.
When I was a rookie member of Parliament, shortly after this government was elected on a promise of openness by default and to be the most open and transparent government in history, I was at an ethics committee meeting where you were a witness. During that meeting, you talked about the motivation and lack of motivation to fully respond to requests within government. You said:
It's because they understand, they read the signals. They read the signals from the centre, the Clerk of the Privy Council, the deputy minister, the assistant deputy minister, or director general.
There's a higher penalty to be paid if you're zealous in releasing records that you know are being requested and proceeding with them sharply, and only excluding what needs to be excluded, where you have the discretion not to exempt certain parts, and having the information out there, than in saying no, and delaying or invoking exceptions and letting the requesters go through the complaint mechanism.
It has been eight years. How much has changed?