Information & Ethics committee  I don't have the expertise to answer that question.

Information & Ethics committee  You have to file an expedited processing request, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  In the U.S., there is a 25-year declassification system. After that time, they are uncensored and declassified to the greatest extent possible. In Canada, the only way to declassify documents is through access to information requests, one at a time, depending on who is requestin

Information & Ethics committee  To be honest, I don't have that expert knowledge, but I imagine that exists. The American system is not perfect when it comes to censorship, delays, appeals and so on, but this problem is more prevalent here in Canada.

Information & Ethics committee  If you're a researcher today wanting to research Canadian security state records somewhat expediently, you have to look at research that has already been done, because a historical request.... The CSIS archive and the RCMP security service archive are at LAC under volume RG146. T

Information & Ethics committee  I mean, it definitely affects the content of stories, and the political content of stories as well, if we're talking about state information. I'd just point out, on the RCMP topic, that not only is the RCMP not acknowledging.... I had a communication from them five or six years

Information & Ethics committee  In the short term, when we consider degrees of policy shift that are possible, the only remedy is through the courts. Whether it's through financial penalties that are leveraged on government officials and departments, whether it's through other kinds of means, there are currentl

Information & Ethics committee  The longest-standing request that I have ongoing is with Library and Archives Canada, which goes back to 2018.

Information & Ethics committee  What do you mean by “radical transparency”?

Information & Ethics committee  I believe in a system of government where citizens are participating in a process where there is an honest brokerage of knowledge of what their governments are doing. This act does not do that.

Information & Ethics committee  It's been somewhat referred to in testimony today and testimony from previous witnesses. If I don't pay my taxes, there are consequences. There are rules to abide by in a collective society of things that are expected from you. According to the Access—

Information & Ethics committee  From my experience in the United States, if a government doesn't play by the rules, there are forms of infrastructure—

Information & Ethics committee  This picks up on a point by Ms. Hepfner, where we talk about more information being available, or more access requests happening than ever before. A lot of reference has been made in this committee to vexatious or unnecessary requests from the public. I think those happen in a f

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I would ask the access to information coordinator of CSIS, and I would ask Amir Attaran, a constitutional lawyer, who is well versed in case law around constitutional challenges and the relevance of the constitutional overlap with the current state of the act.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Gourde. When I referenced the five years to write an article, it was more so the five years of documented frustrations with the access act in terms of performing research on a single topic regarding COINTEL profiles in Canada. These were archive