Information & Ethics committee  Thank you.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much.

Information & Ethics committee  Each department has its own.... I couldn't tell you. With the RCMP, it's clearly a resource issue.

Information & Ethics committee  They need more resources.

Information & Ethics committee  That's exactly what I was saying earlier. Even if you give me more, if you give me $9 million tomorrow morning and I hire 25 new investigators, I will not get the response I need from the institution because it doesn't have the resources to respond.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. There are some institutions where we will need additional resources to me and—

Information & Ethics committee  I'm trying to do this through my investigations, to make recommendations to each of these institutions. They have to go and get the money and the resources. They are responsible to put their priorities into ATIP access.

Information & Ethics committee  I can do that in my annual and special reports. We try to do that, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  You're right. One thing we are trying to do more and more is systemic investigations and audits of places where we know there's an issue with either resources or training and make recommendations to the institutions to address those. I'm trying to do more of those and I do have the authority.

Information & Ethics committee  It's 50% of the requests for access to information

Information & Ethics committee  It's 500 of the 2,500 complaints last year.

Information & Ethics committee  Sure.

Information & Ethics committee  It represents 50% of the requests in terms of the requests for access to information, government-wise but not 50% of my complaints, I don't believe.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm dealing with the complaints only, but the access requests are being governed by Treasury Board. I understand that they are looking at tools to help IRCC respond to these requests through other mechanisms than access requests.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I'm just doing the complaints.