The problem I'm pointing to is that you have taxpayers across the country paying for this information to be extracted--because it's not always at the fingertips. Sometimes questions that are contained in ATIPs require research, or they require information to be compiled, ordered, or counted--and all of this costs money. If the information is being used for commercial reasons--in other words, it is being sold by, as I say, a data broker or someone else who does this as a business--it is reasonable to expect that such a business person would absorb the cost of the product they are selling. I'm asking how the British Columbia system addresses that.
On April 1st, 2009. See this statement in context.