Information & Ethics committee  I think the institutions are overwhelmed with the increases, for sure. I'll give you an example. We met with the Canada Revenue Agency's executive committee on a couple of occasions, because they're in serious difficulty. It's one of the institutions that receive the most reques

Information & Ethics committee  Therefore, that is extremely labour-intensive. There is a lot to be said for really moving from a culture of secrecy to a culture of openness. I think there are good intentions from the government in that respect. I've certainly been at the table with deputy ministers this past y

Information & Ethics committee  I'm just going to go through the departmental plan to see what you're looking at.

Information & Ethics committee  Overall, we consider that a refusal file lasts about nine months, but we've been trying to reduce that all the time. That's the median turnaround time. You're going to have outliers on each side. That's why. These were our performance targets, 90 days and nine months, which was

Information & Ethics committee  Layla, you can look at that. I know we did some computer purchases this year, but the numbers you're looking at are amalgamated between the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and our office. Our purchases are nowhere near the scale of the Privacy Commissioner's Office. We were ab

Information & Ethics committee  The funding that we're getting is temporary funding, and the funding we got last year was temporary funding—

Information & Ethics committee  —waiting for amendments to the act. This year we're in the same situation because we haven't seen the amendments to the act yet, and of course, we're not dealing with the root causes of problems with the Access to Information Act. But there is a reality. The reality is that for a

Information & Ethics committee  I'm extremely disappointed. I've said that publicly before. This is something I really believe in. At the same time, I really do believe that Canada has everything that is possible to really become a truly outstanding world leader in this field. This is because we have very well-

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. As you know, we have an audit and verification committee at the OIC. We are following the government's policies on audit and evaluation, and this past year was the time for us to do an IT audit. We did one on two fronts. We did the security of our systems, but we also did

Information & Ethics committee  If the committee wishes, we're more than happy to share the actual audit, the results and the action plan that we've put in place. We have no difficulty doing that.

Information & Ethics committee  We got around $3 million. The objective we had to fulfill was to close 2,361 files. By March 31 we had closed 2,245—a gap of 116. We haven't finished all of the calculations, because the fiscal year is not quite closed, but we're looking at a lapse of about $400,000 out of the $

Information & Ethics committee  We've managed to reduce the turnaround times significantly year over year. Investigations are not a perfect science. I can assure you that when we did the long gun registry case or the political interference cases, it took us more than a year to do them. We have some files that

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you very much for the opportunity to discuss the main estimates for the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada. The Access to Information Act establishes the Office of the Information Commissioner as the first level of independent review of

Public Safety committee  It would strike a better balance, but we're still dealing with the Security of Information Act, which I think now captures everything that's in clauses 14 and 16.

Public Safety committee  It would be better, and it would be better if there were a public interest recognition of the work of the committee and judicial review.