I appreciate your comments, Professor Drapeau. I was also a lawyer in private practice before I was elected to government. My colleagues and I often made requests on behalf of clients, for which we charged service fees.
What do we do about the huge backlog? What do we do about the request that we open up the access to information system to anybody in the world--for example, that we make it easier for people to make requests over the Internet? Given the information that the Information Commissioner provided of the percentage of cost actually recovered from the fee that's charged--and I think he said it was 1% or less--how do we compensate for that in terms of the cost to the taxpayers of Canada?