I can't remember for sure that I read the same article. I've read Professor Roberts' book and many of his commentaries about access to information. Since that article was published, my office did a systemic investigation—it ran from 2003 to 2005—on what became known as “amber lighting” media requests.
The Canadian Newspaper Association filed a complaint. My predecessor started a systemic complaint on it. We found there was amber lighting. We found that indeed the media was part of that amber lighting, but they weren't the worst. Parliamentarians and lawyers were slowed down even worse than the media was in the amber lighting, and we found it did slow the requests in some circumstances.
I came out not against profiling requests within a department, but certainly against it violating the timeliness of the act, and made three recommendations to Treasury Board, which we're about to follow up on.
So that's the amber lighting and how the media might be profiled. I have no problems with that, because if a department wants to get ready for its communications on a story that's going to break, so long as they do it within the 30 days by the statute or the 60-day extension, that's their decision from a management point of view. We can argue what the spin is—that's another story—but if the requester gets his information in a timely fashion, that's what is paramount to me.
As for the second component, since then as well, we haven't really found a major issue. I'm sorry, I'm using up your time, but there was a two-part question.