There are provisions for review bodies that don't exist in any other legislation. Why the government spent all the money it did on the Air India inquiry, the Brown task force, and the O'Connor inquiry, to then ignore their recommendations is beyond me. It's a step backward. The only thing that is a step forward here is, until about 2004, the RCMP could actually conceal from the commission that it had information by not disclosing to them that it had it. They would just look at it, assume it was privileged, and they would never even tell you they had it.
A court case requires them at least to tell them there is a case here, that it's classified, that it's privileged, and they're not going to give it to you. At least you knew you were being denied something. Until 2004, the commission that had been established didn't even know that information was being withheld from it. This is intolerable. It's easy enough to put in a provision, and you have access. You have a regime whereby the RCMP says that is classified, it's privileged under the Security of Information Act, that when you release your report, don't disclose that information.
Public disclosure is different from the review body when it's doing its investigation, making its findings, and making its recommendations. It's fully informed as to what it's dealing with.