Information & Ethics committee  Documents are classified based on the sensitivity of their content. For example, in a classified document, there could be only one sentence to keep from disclosing. In those cases, we provide the whole document without that confidential sentence. The system used to label document

Information & Ethics committee  Bill C-58 in no way impacts exemptions and exclusions. As such, the current situation would not change.

Information & Ethics committee  It's a different model from the federal model, but it brings together very closely considerations of both access to information and protection of privacy.

Information & Ethics committee  In some jurisdictions, the records within ministers' offices are considered to be departmental records. In other jurisdictions, that's not the case.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it does.

Information & Ethics committee  That's right, and it's a pretty significant change. Earlier, Minister Gould was speaking to the publication of mandate letters, and she described a situation in which bureaucrats previously working within the departments were affected by those mandate letters but really did not

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. It's the first time that the act is applying to ministers' offices and the Prime Minister's Office as well as to the institutions that support the courts and Parliament—and the Senate.

Information & Ethics committee  The first full review of the act, which would take place within a year of royal assent, would provide, in shorter than the normal five-year cycle, an opportunity to see what is working, what has begun working, or what is maybe not working as well as it needs to.

Information & Ethics committee  That's why the approach that we've been taking is to bring forward a bill that focuses very specifically on some important commitments that were made and to support the government in advancing those, but to ensure that also in the bill there is an ability for a full review in sho

Information & Ethics committee  The intent is for the ongoing reviews to allow parliamentarians to have that discussion.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. The existing Access to Information Act does include provisions to consider the protection of some information that would either be of harm to the national interest, if released, or of harm to individuals, so we have not proposed any changes in terms of those existing provisi

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, we do have statistics that indicate every time exemptions were granted. Most of the time, they are granted when personal information or information regarding international affairs or national defence are concerned, or in the case of a strengthening of the legislation or inve

Information & Ethics committee  Much of the work of thinking about declining to process requests has been based on taking a look at what is done in provinces and territories and talking to our colleagues in those jurisdictions—

Information & Ethics committee  —yes, and having a look at how their legislation is framed as well. What's different for the provinces and territories is that they typically have a single commissioner who is responsible for both access to information and privacy.

Information & Ethics committee  That's right. What we're also trying to ensure in the proposal that we have is that there.... For example, in the order-making power, what we have proposed is that the Information Commissioner have an order-making power, but the Privacy Commissioner could in appropriate circumsta