Information & Ethics committee  I don't know. I thought the minister.... Some of the documents I got earlier on were that they were going to make a big deal of doing early action. They were going to come and release some things, like maybe a public interest override or some sop for Canadians. They have not done

Information & Ethics committee  When you can't even bother to put in some simple amendments on times or even if it's cabinet records for 10 years instead of 20 years.... When you can't even bother to do that much, then you're not seriously considering doing things. At the same time, in that delay, you're spen

Information & Ethics committee  It would help if they would, first of all.... I mean they've listed in some places the millions of dollars that are going to AI companies, but they've never documented throughout the government, including Treasury Board, what uses are being made of AI or which banks are there.

Information & Ethics committee  I believe the government doesn't want to do anything except millions of dollars on digital stuff, which will make access to information harder and will make personal information and the consent of individual Canadians to give it harder. I have nothing against digitization, but

Information & Ethics committee  There's more than a culture of secrecy. There's a culture of corruption and conflict of interest, because once you start hiding contracts, as I was alluding to.... There has been a lot of press about that, not just sole sourcing but awarding them to your friends and so on. If you

Information & Ethics committee  I'm sorry. I didn't get the—

Information & Ethics committee  It's not coming through, unfortunately.

Information & Ethics committee  It's like night and day. Why would you want a cabinet committee called Treasury Board, whose main goal is to repress information, in charge of your access to information? If you had access officers who weren't being trained and more money put into the CG office to brainwash them

Information & Ethics committee  Can I answer that, please?

Information & Ethics committee  I do too.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, for a minute I thought I was in a study session instead of a serious legislative committee, but I'm going to show you why you have to take things seriously. Since I came to testify nearly six months ago, several detrimental changes to the right to information have occ