Information & Ethics committee  I don't know whether they are at the federal level. I've never been in a federal cabinet, but I've been in a couple of provincial cabinets, and those were never recorded. The decisions and conclusions are recorded.

Information & Ethics committee  There's nothing in our legislation that deals with quantum of funding that a person or a corporation or an association might receive from government. The determining standard is whether or not the government effectively controls it. That's the standard: by share ownership, or by

Information & Ethics committee  I think there are only one or two items that are outside of the commissioner's purview to review, one of which would be judge's notes. There's no way you're going to get—

Information & Ethics committee  Subsection 5(1) in the act spells it out.

Information & Ethics committee  It applies to all records in the custody of or under the control of a public body, but does not apply to a record in a court file, a record of a judge of the Court of Appeal, trial division or provincial court, a judicial administration record or a record relating to support serv

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Letto.

Information & Ethics committee  We didn't organize this with an index, did we?

Information & Ethics committee  I would have to take a look at the act. I've been away from it for nearly two years now.

Information & Ethics committee  We added eight additional categories to what was already there.

Information & Ethics committee  There was a time when there was no access to information. I think Newfoundland was the second jurisdiction to implement a freedom of information act, Nova Scotia being the first, and then I think the federal one was implemented. I believe Newfoundland's was in 1982 and Nova Scoti

Information & Ethics committee  The matter that is a public issue right now in Newfoundland was probably the driving force. All this came about at a time when the government was involved in promoting a major Newfoundland government public undertaking in the development of Muskrat Falls, a $7-billion project. A

Information & Ethics committee  I've lost count, but I think there have been five, at least.

Information & Ethics committee  I did lose count.

Information & Ethics committee  It's an easy step. You just switch the burdens. We've stayed with the ombudsman model where what the commissioner directs is a recommendation. The public servant has to comply, unless it goes to court to get an order to set it aside.

Information & Ethics committee  There was no recommendation to us and no complaint about that system. It worked fairly well. As a matter of fact, the privacy side of it had been enacted only a short time before. It started out as being just a statute with respect to access to information, and the privacy sectio