To comment on that, I know the ombudsman had the same question from the Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Law Amendments in Fredericton, and his comment was that increasing user fees basically amounts to a tax on democracy. It's not really a path that we would encourage the committee members here to endorse or go down.
In New Brunswick we have, I think, the benefit of having the lowest costs for accessing information. It's just a $5 filing fee and 10¢ a page for photocopies. And the practice invariably is that access requests for one's own personal information have the fees waived. In Quebec I note that there's no access fee; there's just a photocopying charge.
When we've sounded out New Brunswickers on this issue, they've come and told us, “Wait a minute, I'm looking for information from government. I'm a taxpayer. I've already paid for your salary, I've paid for everything that you're producing, and now you're going to charge me again to get a copy of it? I don't think so.” I think that if members of Parliament went back to their own constituencies and asked their constituents those questions, they'd probably get an earful.