I can explain. First of all, we've never argued that Canada Post should be required to release information that would undermine our public postal service. As you know, some of the multinational competitors in the courier industry are extremely aggressive and predatory. We think Canada Post should be protected from having to give commercially sensitive information like that.
In our comments on proposed subsection 18.1(2), our only point is that the “general administration” information is generally readily available in annual reports.
As for proposed paragraph 18.1(2)(b)'s activities that are “fully funded out of moneys appropriated by Parliament”, they refer to only two things: free government mailings and literature for the blind.
We think a better way to deal with the points in proposed section 18.1 is to rewrite proposed subsection18.1(1) so that it simply says that all information as requested under this act is required to be released. We've deleted the reference to information that has “consistently been treated as confidential”, because Canada Post hasn't been obligated to release information in the past, so they could argue that virtually everything is information that falls under that exemption.