Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
On March 9, Commissioner Marleau told this committee that a significant percentage of the users of the access to information system in Canada were what he would describe as data brokers, i.e., commercial organizations that gather information for their clients and then resell the information to them.
Would you agree that the commercial organizations, such as data brokers or lobbyists or even lawyers in private practice, as I was a short while ago, are very different from individual taxpayers who are looking for their own information, and that these data brokers and commercial organizations should pay a reasonable cost of the provision of that information to them, given that they're going to resell it to their clients at a fairly significant rate?
What would your view on that be, whoever would like to answer that question? I know this is something that's done in British Columbia, for example.