British Columbia Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner temporarily closes

The Victoria Times-Colonist lead story for January 23, 2010, based on a leaked document, was about the closure, on the advice of legal counsel, of British Columbia's Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC). This followed the appointment of Commissioner David Loukidelis by the BC Government as the new Deputy Attorney General. The OIPC Web site contains a copy of his letter of resignation dated January 19, 2010 to the Office of the Speaker. A committee of the Legislative Assembly is supposed to appoint a new Commissioner, but in the meantime, another special committee is in the process of reviewing the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the legal authority under which the OIPC operates. Is it unreasonable to think that this all has something to do with the Vancouver Winter Olympics and discouraging FOI requests for information about the Games?