In the first study I did of the processing of requests in one department, HRDC, in 2002—putting aside other considerations, such as how complicated the request was, and so on—the extra time for a media request was 22 days and for a political party request it was 24 days.
If it was also tagged as sensitive in the database, there was an additional sort of 14-day delay, attributable to that consideration.
In my later study of eight departments, the results vary by department. But in Citizenship and Immigration, if the request was from the media, putting aside other factors, you were looking at another 48 days in processing time. If it was a party request, from a member of Parliament or a political party, it was an extra 34 days. In Foreign Affairs, it was an extra 20 days if you were a journalist, and an extra 45 days if you were a party requester.
It varied from department to department.