I couldn't agree with you more. As you know, my concern has always been--going back to the months when we had our discussions--that a small group of individuals or organizations are using the system excessively at virtually no cost, but at great cost to the taxpayers.
I think you told us that the cost of complying with an access to information request was roughly $1,500 per access. Here you've got two individuals or organizations--probably a media organization is one of them--generating thousands of information requests that cost the government and the taxpayers of Canada and all those hardworking Canadians at least $1,500 to respond to. When they don't like the amount of time it's taking to get them that information, they put a complaint into the commissioner's office and that generates maybe another $3 million to $4 million worth of cost to the taxpayers.
Do you think there's any argument there for attaching a reasonable cost to a business organization, like a media organization or a data collector, like a government relations firm or a law firm, to supplying that information they're going to resell to their customers?