As one who knows a lot of users and all the rest, I'm afraid there are perhaps two misconceptions that I can totally clear up. One is that in this country there are such things as data brokers, because there's not a big enough market here. I don't think people cough up a huge amount of information and resell it and resell it. It's just not in the nature of the way things are done. You might have clients who ask you to get information for them, but you don't go and collect information and have a huge warehouse and deposit it.
The other thing is I think it was quite unfortunate of Commissioner Marleau.... Remember the distinction that he was also trying to make between access users and complainants. By putting in front of the committee the fact that two or three complainants on that list are tying up his system--I'm not going to say that they're right or wrong, since that's their right--I think you have to look at what's wrong with his system that he can't handle it with the extra resources that you've given him, and that he can't even handle my six or so complaints, and that he can't handle anybody else's, and that people don't want to come to him.
I don't think that you have a right that you can start making distinctions. Another way of approaching it is that if somebody makes a request and there is a huge volume of records, past a certain point I think it's legitimate to have charges. There are ways of handling this. You could talk to the requester and try to come to some grips with it. But to destroy the whole act because you think or you perceive there's the bogeyman of one or two people who supposedly are abusing it, that's a dangerous slippery slope.