The Member points out, correctly, that it's subject to review. The Commissioner can take the
government to task for failing to comply with a reasonable request, whatever "reasonable" would be in the eyes of the Commissioner. And whether or not, for instance, the request for translation of certain documents was reasonable, it would eventually come to this Legislature.
I think what we didn't point out yesterday, because we ran out of time, is what this legislation is going to do to the government, I would think we would begin very soon after, if it is enacted, to come up with some guidelines to help the head of public bodies such as deputy ministers to have guidelines by which to make these decisions. So there's overall policy that the government abides by in trying to comply with this request. Otherwise, we will have, possibly, a huge back-up of complaints and perhaps lots of difficulties because we're not complying in a uniform way.
The impact of this act would be to force the government to comply, and if not, then to be able to explain in some rational way why it is not complying across the board. It would, I think, force us to do that very quickly. And in these economic times, it would be arguably cheaper to comply where we should comply. Therefore, the argument would be made that we will work very hard and very quickly to create guidelines so it would help us with that so we don't come into conflict needlessly with this act.