Information & Ethics committee  I'll give you two.

Information & Ethics committee  This committee looked at the issue back in 2006, by the way. It's a problem. It isn't just a time-delay problem; it's a problem like you're trying to come to grips with two categories of fees, or multi-use by an access user. Where do you draw the line? If you're not going to trea

Information & Ethics committee  I'd say make it a constitutional right, section 2. But if you don't mind me also saying, here's the dilemma that I'm having. I don't necessarily blame this government or a previous government, because you both put out a lot of inspectors to pasture. You said to people like Cana

Information & Ethics committee  Sure. I'm one of the favourites, and so are political parties. The Reform Party, for instance, used to be on it all the time.

Information & Ethics committee  Near the beginning. Maybe it wasn't called amber-lighting. In Ontario it's called red alert. You can apply it to sensitive hot issues, whatever you want to call it.

Information & Ethics committee  As one who knows a lot of users and all the rest, I'm afraid there are perhaps two misconceptions that I can totally clear up. One is that in this country there are such things as data brokers, because there's not a big enough market here. I don't think people cough up a huge amo

Information & Ethics committee  It's a non-starter. Yes, there are a few good things in there, like extending to Parliament our universal access rights, or bringing in cabinet records—although you won't get any of them as a user. The five-year review could be done—this committee can review the act any day. But

Information & Ethics committee  First of all, you have to understand that right now we don't have such a system. We have government websites that put on limited stuff. Some of it's pure propaganda. We're not talking about putting up only proactive disclosure, travel expense lists, contract lists, or other admin

Information & Ethics committee  If you have provisions within the act, which I certainly do in my bill, that allow you to exempt things related to a narrowly defined national security area, then obviously those things don't go on the Internet. But other things do. They don't just go on the Intranet, which is th

Information & Ethics committee  Well, there are other jurisdictions, such as Alberta. Yes, there are some judicial reviews going on, but when you look at the total perspective of how many orders are issued, it's a very minor number of them, which means that either you have to have better orders or that the go

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly the national librarian has to be involved. The problem is that they've been involved with Treasury Board for 25 years, and we're in a sad state of affairs with our records and documentation retrieval. There is also the fact that an oral tradition has grown up, to the po

Information & Ethics committee  I was intimating that I rarely use the complaint stage any more because it's so totally broken down. A lot of other users would say the same thing. If you're going to have to wait a year or two to even get on, and then you're going to be triaged so you can't even get your complai

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, there has been, because you don't even get a letter of acknowledgement for your complaints. You don't even hear from an investigator, nor does the department, for months at a time. What's the point of going there? One of the principles of the current Access to Information A

Information & Ethics committee  Can I speak for Marleau? There's time, time extension, fee kinds of complaints, operational complaints on the access procedures. The problem with a lot of Commissioner Marleau's recommendations is like that game of pin the tail on the donkey: it's just like here, here, and there.

Information & Ethics committee  The short answer is no.