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Information & Ethics committee Our report indicates that nothing would be terrible about it. We recommended a much more open regime, and the structure we put in place in the legislation we drafted provides for a much more open regime. However, it doesn't provide for a totally open regime. Government still has
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells
Information & Ethics committee The hybrid model would greatly assist in achieving this goal.
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells
Information & Ethics committee It's an injustice for a cabinet officer to be able to declare, no, and that the commissioner can't even look at it. That just destroyed public confidence in the integrity of the system. If you give a minister or the cabinet the broad ability to veto the release of information, I
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells
Information & Ethics committee I've not been aware of it, so this is just an immediate reaction to your question. It would lower public confidence in it down to, perhaps, an unacceptable level. The mere fact that it can be done would be enough to damage the integrity of the system, in my view. I could it see
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells
Information & Ethics committee I don't recall that we had an extensive discussion on that issue specifically, but the standard that had been applied, which we didn't alter, was that any organization was subject to act if the majority of its board of directors was appointed by the government. If it was a non-pr
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells
Information & Ethics committee Injury is obviously a consideration that must be taken into account. In the end we looked at applying the principle of a public interest override. We greatly expanded the public interest override. Even where there is an absolute right to entitlement—I've forgotten the phrase we u
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells
Information & Ethics committee All information—
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells
Information & Ethics committee We added eight categories.
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells
Information & Ethics committee We had a great deal of discussion about the issue, as you can well imagine. It started at the outset with the commissioner complaining about the inordinate delays, of sometimes two, three, and four years, before the information was released—an incredible portion. All the details
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells
Information & Ethics committee Ladies and gentlemen, it's in your hands to decide what you want to hear from us.
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells
Information & Ethics committee We didn't remove all exemptions. There are certain things that so clearly and manifestly should not be subject to disclosure that they speak for themselves; you don't have to make the case. The most obvious one that I can think of is the preliminary police investigation of alle
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells
Information & Ethics committee Exemption from commissioner's review is different. We eliminated that because we felt the commissioner was a trusted servant of the public. Lawyers in the Department of Justice are entrusted with solicitor-client information. Why wouldn't the lawyers in the commissioner's offic
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells
Information & Ethics committee I will explain our position at the outset.
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells
Information & Ethics committee Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee, thank you very much. I want at the outset to emphasize, for the record and for the media and members of the public present, that we're here at the invitation of this committee. We're not here seeking to make a presentation on behalf of
May 31st, 2016Committee meeting
Clyde Wells