Mr. Kenney, in my remarks I made reference to a statement that you made in the House in 2004. It concerned the existence of a central communications group revealed by someone by the name of Jonathan Murphy. You may recall this. The purpose of this group, as Mr. Murphy alleged in an article published in The Globe and Mail , was to discuss access to information requests and do whatever they could to delay and thwart them.
If such a group did indeed exist—and I have no doubt that it did, though I have no evidence beyond what was published—it is beyond imagination that it would not have discussed the identities of individual requesters and the fact that they were members of the media. I find that difficult to believe.
My challenge to members of the committee and to the government is to clarify whether such a group still exists. Is this part of the tracking mechanism we've been talking about? The tracking mechanisms do exist, and the discrimination of media requests as opposed to other kinds of requests does take place. In this kind of management of requests from the media, it is likely that identities will be talked about, though I don't have the documentary evidence that you request. I just want to clarify.