Thank you.
I appreciate the question and can tell you that the committee has begun its work of thinking through this but we won't be putting forward specific recommendations until we have a committee to refer it to.
The chair has already indicated to you that one of the things that's very important to us is the issue of access to information.
I want to stress generally that the departments have been very good, and we've developed a very respectful relationship with organizations that at the beginning were really, you know, “these politicians, these parliamentarians, are going to have access to this information”.... There was some hesitancy there. By and large, it has been very good, but we have had specific incidents, as I think the chair referred to, where we think certain departments have perhaps given too broad an interpretation to what is a cabinet confidence.
The other question is, should cabinet confidences all be protected or in what circumstances? They don't have to be. They can be provided to us.
Those are the kinds of issues that we will be deliberating on. As of today, the only ones that we're prepared to say—because we've raised it in our own reports and our own comments about our reports when we've released them—are the two things about action or reporting back on recommendations being followed through on and the issue with respect to access to information in a timely and fulsome way.