Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to emphasize that this motion speaks to the issues that I’ve raised in my two previous comments. Since 2008, the government has not
officially responded to recommendations in the Information and Privacy Commissioner’s report. The committee certainly felt, and I support as well, that any report from a statutory officer ought to be viewed by the government, reviewed by the government, and any recommendations in that report from the Information and Privacy Commissioner or any statutory officer, ought to be looked at by the government with a view to improving service of government. I think there ought to be an official response, either to the commission or to the standing committee.
This motion talks about recommendations from 2008 through to this year, May-June of this year, when the standing committee reviewed the latest report. I think it is time, it’s been a four-year time period, where there’s been no official response from government and I fully believe that it’s time for the government to respond to each of the recommendations and indicate what the government will do, provide an implementation plan to deal with the recommendations in the reports.