Bob Dechert at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On May 13th, 2009. See this statement in context.

May 13th, 2009 / 4:45 p.m.

Conservative

Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON

So that would be a commercial venture, perhaps.

With respect to the one individual who has made 500 requests to the CBC, resulting in 400 complaints, would there be an argument for a differential fee for a large-volume user of the access to information system? I know the current fee is $5 per request, and it costs approximately $1,400 to respond to each of those requests. Can a valid argument be made that perhaps that one individual should pay more than $5 if the number of requests exceeds, say, 25 or 50 in any given year?

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