Information & Ethics committee  Very briefly. This is also dealt with in Mr. Reid's bill, where the access coordinator is responsible and should be responsible for how the request is handled, but ultimately the request also has to go to the deputy minister and the minister for how these things happen.

Information & Ethics committee  In terms of something that could be done, the Reid report with order-making powers, recommendations one and two of your platform from 2006--I think that's important. I think there is a real consensus.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Recommendations one and two, the Reid report, full order-making powers.

Information & Ethics committee  I would like to. Unfortunately, I don't have full recall and I don't have the articles in front of me. In terms of amber-lighting, the act should govern. If you're supposed to get your documents within x period of time, you should get them within that period of time. If the gov

Information & Ethics committee  I'm afraid I'm not able to respond in the detail that you want, because we as an organization do not fall into that category.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I have information in the sense that we have not had problems with the way it is set up, or at least not major problems. So that's why I commend it to you as an example, because it seems to work. As to the details of how it works, I'm afraid I really couldn't provide you with th

Information & Ethics committee  I think perhaps my previous answer would stand on this, that the B.C. system deals with users who use it for a commercial purpose, not merely frequent users. We would support a restriction on somebody where it is the equivalent of a court application to strike something for bei

Information & Ethics committee  I think you start running into some very serious problems when you start judging it on the number of requests. You start running into issues of freedom of the press, because a number of reporters would probably file a request a week, or a request a day. The threshold becomes very

Information & Ethics committee  The system does not look at full cost-recovery, because then you start getting into real problems with how you assess the cost of creating it. You also start getting into the problem I was outlining earlier in response to—

Information & Ethics committee  Commissioner Marleau, in his remarks to the committee, I believe on March 4, said he supports the open government act that was developed by his predecessor. He does not have a problem with it. FIPA, as an organization, does not see why we need half measures, when so many of Mr. M

Information & Ethics committee  As an organization, we're very much in favour of proactive disclosure, and the new technologies are making it much easier. It's a completely different world now. We have what used to be government information in filing cabinets. Even the best-intentioned bureaucracy cannot run of

Information & Ethics committee  I don't see how the order-making power itself would bring about the delays. The delay comes when the government or the public body tells you that they're not giving you the documents, and you complain about it. The beauty of the order-making power is that you're able to get a rem

Information & Ethics committee  With respect to the duty to document, Commissioner Reid put it in his draft bill. The commissioner, as a creature of statute, can't look in the archives; he needs it in his own act.