Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It appears that we are going to have a bit of an ATIPP debate before we get into the actual details here. I would challenge the Minister's position on the legislation and reiterate what Mr. Roland has said, and that is that a disclosure of personal information is not an unreasonable invasion of a third party's personal privacy where the personal information relates to the third party's classification, salary range, discretionary benefits or employment responsibilities as an officer, employee or member of the public body, or as a member of the staff of a member of the Executive Council.
If there is any doubt as to whether or not we are talking about discretionary benefits, I can quote a letter which I am prepared to distribute to all of the Members that was dated November 17th from the Premier to the Standing Committee on Accountability and Oversight, in which he states:
I agree that the release of information concerning the chief of staff's classification, salary range, employment responsibilities and discretionary benefits does not constitute an unreasonable invasion of privacy and I am therefore prepared to report the following.
Under the discretionary benefits section, it says a listing is offered in Attachment A. Attachment A gets into leave, termination, performance, pay, et cetera. I would be prepared to distribute this letter from the Premier to our committee to all Members in the House here to indicate that the Premier, in fact, agrees that this is not an unreasonable invasion of privacy.