Thank you.
The chair is asking for some words of wisdom here. The issue of costs has come up often, not only with regard to access but also with regard to our work on privacy. If we only had one request, the cost per request would obviously be the entire budget of your department, or not your department but at least the government's cost of processing a request. No complaints--I suppose that would be a great system. Somehow everybody's just cooperating and you don't have to go through the system.
I guess the real question is, how do we appreciate and how should we assess the importance of having an Access to Information Act? Can you remind us of why we have it and why it's important that we finance an effective and efficient Access to Information Act?