Madam Chair, when I speak about a lack of transparency, what I'm referring to is mainly information supplied to my office. I'm not questioning the fact that the government was transparent in terms of publishing the legislative measure and the regulation. Publishing regulations and summaries of regulatory impact studies is a legislative requirement.
My criticisms were mainly about the fact that the government did not provide us with the information we needed to estimate the costs of public service compensation. It used legal provisions that allowed it not to disclose information stemming from Cabinet deliberations, which meant that my office did not have access to disaggregated and sufficiently detailed data on the percentage of men and women in certain groups of public servants, or about their pay.
We did not have access to these data because the government said they were part of cabinet deliberations. That's why I made my comment about the lack of transparency. It's about the disclosure of information my office needs to estimate the costs associated with this act, and not the publication of regulations.