Information & Ethics committee  I don't know if I want that job. If I think of the system in a way that's bigger than just access to information legislation, I would say we pass. If you're asking specifically about the Access to Information Act, I would say, no, we have a ton of work to do.

Information & Ethics committee  I think it creates a huge stress on the system. It's sad that people can't have access to their information without going through an access to information request, which can be very complicated to navigate. If we think about who's filing a lot of the requests.... IRCC is one of

Information & Ethics committee  I think those are different things. To me, if you're trying to access your own information, or access information about a file you have with IRCC, for example, that's not vexatious. You're trying to get something done and move something forward yourself. If you can't do that, I

Information & Ethics committee  Open government is really founded on the ideas of accountability, access to information and civic engagement. I would say that those are the three big things that underpin open government. I think we have a lot of civic citizen participation opportunities. Things are changing,

Information & Ethics committee  I think it would look like a much more significant reform to the Access to Information Act we currently have. If we were being really ambitious, we would establish a transparency strategy that would bring all of these different sorts of open government and transparency initiative

Information & Ethics committee  I like how you promoted me to dean. That's very kind.

Information & Ethics committee  Looking at previous meetings, I anticipated this question. Yes, I would agree, as well.

Information & Ethics committee  I think it has had an enormous impact. Part of the issue we face with our Access to Information Act is that it predates digital. It was designed in a mediascape that was very different from the one we operate in today. As a result, instead of starting from scratch and building a

Information & Ethics committee  I think it's tough, because the country context matters so much when you're talking about access to information. For example, when we're talking about digital government, Estonia is often referred to. The old CIO used to talk about Estonia a lot. There was a little Estonia craz

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. It's always interesting to look at other Commonwealth countries. Again, the context here, even though we're part of the Commonwealth, is still a bit different. One thing that makes things a bit different for us—and this really goes to access to information and open governm

Information & Ethics committee  I think the difficulties are.... We want to think about open government initiatives to release information in both official languages at the same time. Oftentimes, the Official Languages Act is actually used as.... It's kind of held up as an impediment to openness in government a

Information & Ethics committee  That's a good question. I have a list here that goes beyond that and reinforces what others have said. Having really good information management—looking at information management systems, including, as one of the previous witnesses said, things like storage, retrieval and digitiz

Information & Ethics committee  I'm sorry, but do you mean with the access to information request form itself?

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not sure I'm well placed to answer that one, in terms of protecting the users. For that one, I would suggest you might want to talk to the Privacy Commissioner. I noticed the commissioner hasn't been here yet. Protecting the privacy of the request, the personal information,

Information & Ethics committee  Here in Canada, when we are talking about “open by default” and open data.... We've seen more movement on open data than “open by default”. It's tough, because it involves a bit of what Mr. Villemure was saying. You have to think about the classification of things in advance. It'