Information & Ethics committee  I agree. There should be access to their information. On a principled basis, they should be included—

Information & Ethics committee  But the source of accessing the information would be through the government.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, there's one thing that I've been thinking about for the last few minutes that I overlooked mentioning in choosing between a hybrid model or an order-making model. Another reason for going with a hybrid model is that one of the primary responsibilities of the commissio

Information & Ethics committee  But in the hybrid model, that conflict disappears. I'm sorry I overlooked emphasizing that.

Information & Ethics committee  —where they're exercising regulatory power.

Information & Ethics committee  You can get information from the government records and the government can release it, and under the legislation that we had there would be no limitation on releasing that third- party information. I would think that a government advancing $100 million to an agency like the Canad

Information & Ethics committee  You're entitled to that information from government offices. If government isn't requiring the agency to provide it, government would be derelict in its duty.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much for your kind comments.

Information & Ethics committee  That's provided for in the legislation and there's a right to have your information corrected. When you discover that the information the government holds is in error, there's a statutory obligation to correct that information and to remove the incorrect record about the individu

Information & Ethics committee  For all those organizations, I assume that individuals would be appointed by government.

Information & Ethics committee  Nav Canada?

Information & Ethics committee  We dealt with publication schemes and recommended that there be provision for proactive publication. I don't know what the statutory provision is, but there were clear recommendations.

Information & Ethics committee  The information we have is that the number of requests for information has increased fairly significantly. That's to be expected. When everything opens up, people will start to try it out. I would expect the number of requests to go up and then to settle back to a reasonable leve

Information & Ethics committee  You don't now, under the existing legislation.

Information & Ethics committee  But a landed immigrant or a resident—