Information & Ethics committee  Yes, and policies on treatment of detainees, reports on particular--

Information & Ethics committee  A contract for his--

Information & Ethics committee  Over the year, it trickled down. They didn't do it all on March 31. They provided it throughout the year.

Information & Ethics committee  That's one way of looking at it, sir, but let me add this and further complicate it for you. I lumped those into one investigation. I told the CBC to meet the March 31, 2009, deadline--

Information & Ethics committee  That's right. Now I have 23.

Information & Ethics committee  I have not broken them down that way, per institution.

Information & Ethics committee  I found them meritorious in the sense that they were late, so they were deemed refusals, and I had extracted a commitment from the CBC of March 31, 2009. At that point the complainant can initiate an action to the Federal Court, which he did.

Information & Ethics committee  Not because of my--

Information & Ethics committee  In part, that action challenged my decision to lump them all into one and to accept the commitment of one year.

Information & Ethics committee  The bulk of them have the word “Afghanistan” in them.

Information & Ethics committee  Some of it has been in the media. They're looking for treatment of detainees. They're looking for spending on equipment, the costs of the new tanks, the whole gamut.

Information & Ethics committee  There's an argument to be made. I'd like to have a little debate offline with you on whether it's valid, but my recommendation number 12, which would allow time extensions for multiple and simultaneous requests by single requesters, would go a long way to cure that in terms of the pressure on the agency and the number of complaints that result, as well as giving discretion to the commissioner on whether to investigate or not.

Information & Ethics committee  The court is a very important component; don't get me wrong. I'm not saying I shouldn't and would not go to court. It's a very important component.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chairman, I would prefer not to identify the departments, because it may also identify some of the individuals associated with those complaints.

Information & Ethics committee  It's difficult to qualify it by cost component. If we're dealing with an allegation of destruction of documents or deliberate concealment of documents, subsection 67(1) of the statute makes it a criminal offence. So yes, we take a different approach and a different attitude to it.