I'm afraid, Mr. Chair, I'm not very much of an expert on access to information, but I do believe that the Access to Information Act does allow exclusions from releasing material that would be potentially harmful to the corporation and many of the crown corporations would use that provision if they believed information is going out that would be commercially sensitive, for example. I believe they also have an exclusion for anything that could be considered journalistic. There's a protection, as well, around some of the material that should be protected.
On May 8th, 2007. See this statement in context.