Information & Ethics committee  There are jurisdictions that do that, but it doesn't work very effectively, because there are so many ways to get around it. However, three of my recommendations to the committee, which you've supported, go to address some of those complexities or issues. One is giving discreti

Information & Ethics committee  The red one is a publicly admitted data broker, and red means that he opposed every recommendation.

Information & Ethics committee  I think, given that date and time, he was probably well founded in his judgment. It ebbed and flowed from 1989 until then. It became a tool for users to the point that the commission now has a complaint because it was shut down. Whereas Mr. Roberts was complaining about its very

Information & Ethics committee  At least in Professor Roberts' opinion.

Information & Ethics committee  As I said in previous testimony, part of it was the Fed AA amendments to the ATI.

Information & Ethics committee  Right, but not all of them.

Information & Ethics committee  But the complaint side has grown by 80%, and that's not all the Fed AA. It's partly the Fed AA, but not all of it.

Information & Ethics committee  I would state that a lot more information is accessible.

Information & Ethics committee  It's a very good thing, and a lot of it is terribly delayed.

Information & Ethics committee  I think it reached $11 million in the last round of estimates.

Information & Ethics committee  That's one way of querying it. Depending on the nature of the complaint, depending on the breadth and that sort of thing, it's hard to put a per complaint cost.

Information & Ethics committee  I felt that was an issue I had to address as commissioner. You may remember I brought in triage of cases. A lot of these users were very upset. I just felt the little old lady from Moose Jaw using the act for the first time needed as equal access as those who were bombarding--

Information & Ethics committee  There are two issues related to CAIRS. The first is that, to be fair, I have to tell you that my office was consulted about CAIRS and its abolition a year before I came into office. And again to be fair, that database, which was going back to 1989, had really reached its shelf li

Information & Ethics committee  There's very little interconnection. Statutorily, between the ATI Act and the Privacy Act, there is a link, and that is the protection of privacy. Under the ATI statute, there's the same sort of vigilance towards protecting privacy and disclosure as there is in the Privacy Act. T

Information & Ethics committee  That recommendation did not just come out of my head. It was a specific recommendation of a royal commission, a one-man commission headed by former Justice La Forest, who looked at privacy and access to information and noted that privacy has, in PIPEDA, an education mandate. Ther