Mr. Speaker, the information commissioner is not just any public servant at the service of the Prime Minister. He is accountable to this parliament and his job is to ensure that the Access to Information Act is complied with. The commissioner is now accusing the office of the Minister of Human Resources Development of having defied the act for political protection.
Can the Deputy Prime Minister tell us what the purpose of an information commissioner is, if ministers can ignore him, defy the act and not only get away with it, but even be congratulated for it?