Information & Ethics committee  I'm not aware of anything. That would require some discussion and some research, and I would think that's one of the reasons the minister has suggested that it be raised here.

Information & Ethics committee  I think, as Denis Kratchanov indicated in one of his earlier responses, the deputy minister mandated and required all of us in the department to pay attention. He also was prepared to devote additional resources, because it does require significant additional resources. I think

Information & Ethics committee  A lot of my information is not.... It's pretty general.

Information & Ethics committee  Generally an HR problem? You mean on the access side.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't know if we do in the department. I have heard it is an issue that there are not enough trained individuals able to work with the access act. Obviously, we seem to have enough if we've been able to go from the F to the A, but that was not without significant efforts on the

Information & Ethics committee  Approaches to access in terms of how we manage the information, or the actual legislation?

Information & Ethics committee  Joan, do you want to speak to that?

Information & Ethics committee  We're not going to comment on that.

Information & Ethics committee  In my opinion, we provide advice to our minister, but we also receive advice from the minister. He is the one who has decided that it was important for the committee to study the report and the recommendations from Information Commissioner Marleau. He has spoken. So those are his

Information & Ethics committee  Any recommendations I may have made to the minister are between him and me. It is confidential.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't think so.

Information & Ethics committee  I think Minister Nicholson himself has spoken to that, and those are the most significant ones since 1983, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, that's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  It's an interesting approach. Yes, it is, and certainly you as a government are looking at the Access to Information Act. Yes, you are.

Information & Ethics committee  Directly to the minister, I think; they'll be passed on to us for response.