Information & Ethics committee  When my division receives a request from the ATIP office for documents, we conduct a review of the document requested, we apply the provisions of the Access to Information Act, and we make recommendations. I sign off on specific recommendations to the delegated departmental authority, who in this case is the ATIP director, who you've already spoken with.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Dhaliwal, our officers apply the provisions of the Access to Information Act in a consistent manner. They look at what exemptions are allowable under the act and they apply them consistently.

Information & Ethics committee  When we review a report we look at it under section 15 in the context of whether release of the information could reasonably be expected to be injurious to the conduct of international affairs. This evaluation is done in context and with reference to the information provided within the reports.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is Gwyneth Kutz. I am a career foreign service officer. I joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1988. I am currently the director of the human rights, gender equality, health and population division in the global issues branch of DFAIT, and I have held this position since August 2006.