Mr. Chairman, it's very difficult to get a handle on what it will cost the crown corporations. You have to look at those crown corporations that are partially in the system, those that are fully in, and those that are largely excluded.
For example, with an organization like Atomic Energy of Canada, everything is basically excluded. You can see their technical details by going to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Board and you can see their financial details by looking at their website and their annual report, but it doesn't appear that anything else will come out, so the cost to them ought to be quite negligible.
On the other hand, there may be significantly more costs to an organization such as one of the foundations, for example, which will come into the act without any but the usual exclusions. So it's very difficult to predict.
On the question of costs, when the task force reported in 2002, they suggested then that the cost of access to information was approximately $35 million a year. They compared that with the cost of communications that the government was bearing at that time, and that sum was approximately $800 million a year. You have to look at those costs in comparison with a whole range of other costs to determine whether they are reasonable under the circumstances.