Information & Ethics committee  Well, the....

Information & Ethics committee  The problem is that it's difficult to talk about this. I can only report in my annual report. In terms of numbers, we have issues with some institutions every year. The RCMP is having a really hard time getting resources. IRCC is doing very well. It gets 55,000 requests a year, a

Information & Ethics committee  I'm told that's one issue. They were asking their own members to go through the access requests to obtain their personal information. That has been fixed.

Information & Ethics committee  I can't comment on whether or not we had a complaint on this issue, but I can tell you that anything we see in the news, we follow. If there's a reason to start a systemic investigation, we think about it.

Information & Ethics committee  By privacy, do you mean section 19, personal information?

Information & Ethics committee  This is the most used exemption of all the requests we see—40% of our complaints deal with section 19, personal information.

Information & Ethics committee  One of my priorities this year is to issue more guidance and positions. When we find examples where the section has not been used appropriately, we are going to start publishing more of those decisions. Hopefully, Bill C-58, which will allow me to publish decisions as they are de

Information & Ethics committee  It's just at the end of the year.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, it would be in my inventory when I start the year.

Information & Ethics committee  The oldest is 2007.

Information & Ethics committee  It's a very complex file, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  We have 500 cases, and we have less than that now. I think we reduced it to 300 that are previous to 2015. Am I correct?

Information & Ethics committee  That was my priority this year. I wanted to get rid of all the old files previous to 2015. The problem with those cases is that most of them are special delegations, national security cases, consultations with other countries, provinces, etc. There's a lot of complexity to these

Information & Ethics committee  That's the plan. We're going to be attacking the backlog with a special team starting this year. We also have an early intervention team we just put in place last year, and it is doing the new cases as they come in. Hopefully, we'll reduce half the backlog.

Information & Ethics committee  What we experienced in the eliminating of the fees is that requesters will often ask for larger volumes of documents. The institutions have not responded to those volumes as well as we were anticipating. Interestingly, the number of cases we have on delays and time limits is abou