I'll take those three minutes. Thank you very much.
I'll pick up on the notion that this government ran on being open by default. In fact, in 2018, it implemented a Ministry of Digital Government. For three years, it had a Ministry of Digital Government, which it then canned unceremoniously in 2021. In my opinion, there is a very secretive culture of obscuring the facts from the general public and the House of Commons.
As a member of Parliament, when I hear someone say they're either unwilling to give us notes—you talked about briefing notes, and I would reference my interaction with the Deputy Prime Minister, who outright refused to give basic briefing notes, which should have been made available to the committee—or they're not even accessing it—which was the Minister of Public Safety, Mr. Bill Blair at the time.... The right to access cannot exist without actual records.
In your opinion, would departments' and institutions' failure to keep adequate records infringe on the rights of Canadians to access information?