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Information & Ethics committee I might add that the Information Commissioner sometimes gives out information. There are judicial things that you would look at, legal opinions that also help you to look at how you would interpret the act, and those things are taken into consideration as well.
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer
Information & Ethics committee I might make the point that I don't believe everybody speed reads. You can only read so many pages in a day. Every time you do something else, clerical or whatever, it takes away from that time you can look at a document. These documents have to be read word for word, line by lin
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer
Information & Ethics committee It has been twenty-four years.
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer
Information & Ethics committee You would have to address that question to Madame Sabourin. It was in her hands before that, so I cannot answer.
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer
Information & Ethics committee No, that would be Ms. Sabourin.
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer
Information & Ethics committee No, that's not my place. Once the delegated authority, the director, signs off on the file, I don't see the file again. It's my presumption at the time that if she signs the file and delivers it to the requester, she has agreed with my recommendations under the access act to pr
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer
Information & Ethics committee That doesn't change my perception in the analysis of the document whatsoever. When the MINA alert is on a file, what that says to me is that ministerial correspondence would like to see this file before the information is given to the requester. For whatever reasons that happens—
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer
Information & Ethics committee Excuse me, I didn't get that.
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer
Information & Ethics committee What I would do is finish the file, take it down for review, prepare an e-mail to MINA that says this file is being sent out. At the time the director is looking at it, that MINA has probably gone forward, because she approves the fact that the MINA should go forward. Then she si
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer
Information & Ethics committee Yes. You basically have to notify them that this is ready to go for disclosure.
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer
Information & Ethics committee If I can just correct you--
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer
Information & Ethics committee --the file I worked on was 466.
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer
Information & Ethics committee It has nothing to do with 605.
June 19th, 2007Committee meeting
Gary Switzer