Information & Ethics committee  I cannot talk about the complaints or the investigation I'm doing, but it is part of the overall investigation, given that I started my own investigation.

Information & Ethics committee  It was the number of complaints we received, the allegations we saw and the testimonies that were sufficiently serious that I decided to initiate my own investigation into the affairs of CBSA and ArriveCAN.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, the act allows me to.

Information & Ethics committee  It's the Access to Information Act.

Information & Ethics committee  I cannot confirm that.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Under the act, I have the power to subpoena documents and subpoena witnesses.

Information & Ethics committee  There's no penalty. The only thing I can do under the act, if I find that somebody is intentionally refusing to co-operate or refusing to provide documents, and if it looks like it's an intent to not provide access to Canadians to some documents, I can refer that to the Attorney General.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  I've done it six times.

Information & Ethics committee  I have never been aware of an investigation.

Information & Ethics committee  We can ask them to. They have to be sworn in, in an affidavit.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't believe so.

Information & Ethics committee  That would be in the purview of the Attorney General's decision, yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Over the last four years, the Office of the Information Commissioner has referred six cases.