Essentially what I gave you are the key figures.
I can tell you what our targets are. In our report on plans and priorities, my targets for the OIC are quite ambitious. Basically, I want to have all of the more simple complaints, what we call the administrative complaints, dealt with within 90 days. About 85% is my performance measure. This year, in that respect, I am at 50% from the date that files were registered. From the date they were assigned, I stand at 70%. So I think we're making good progress on that.
In terms of the old files, we used to have, you remember—or maybe not, but I do—1,600 files dated prior to 2008. I have 30 left. I closed another one last week. I'm hopeful that these will be gone. Some of them were the CBC files, which had been on hold for quite a while because of the Federal Court of Appeal decision. But all of those really old files have been assigned.
My goal, ultimately, when I finish this mandate in four years, is to leave the next commissioner with a contemporary inventory of a manageable size, which would be about three months of cases. Whether that's feasible or not....
If you go to the bottom of page 5 of my handout, to table 7, you will see a summary of the caseload. In there you will see how many cases we've closed in the last four years.
In the last two years, the year we just finished and the year prior to that, we slowed down a little bit in terms of total number of cases. That's because we were dealing with national security files, CBC files, and Canada Revenue Agency files.
So these three groups...on the special delegation files, these are all the cases that deal with national security. We have about 300 of those cases in inventory. They are the most sensitive files, in that we have a special team, we have dedicated lawyers and we have portfolio people, who deal specifically with the institutions. We're making good progress. We've closed more of these files this year than in the last four years. We still have quite a way to go, but that project is working.
We meet with the Canada Revenue Agency regularly. They have very complex files, large-volume files, dealing with very complex international tax files. We have folks specifically assigned to these files, which tend to be more litigious.
In terms of the CBC files—I was looking at this earlier today, actually—we now have about 200 files left with the CBC. We started with almost 1,200 cases with the CBC and we're now at 214 cases. With those, we are now dealing with a specific new provision that was put in play with the Federal Accountability Act, and with the difficulty and complexity of interpreting that provision. However, I must say that it's going very well with the CBC in terms of dealing with the investigations.
I don't know if I answered your question, but these are essentially the three main groups we have.