I think there are two parts to your question. The first one looks at the principle of access to information, at the right of citizens to have access. The statute was never designed to be user pay. Indeed, it was designed to be “on top of”. The normal way to get information is simply to ask for it for free, since the taxpayer has already paid for the document that he or she may be looking for. And section 2 of the act, which was adopted in 1983, clearly says that the act is intended to complement and not replace existing procedures for access to government information. It is not intended to limit in any way the type of information that is normally available to the general public.
With regard to the concept of user pay, there was a $5 fee put in, and there were and are regulations to recover certain costs, certain fees. You have a basic right to so many free search hours and a basic right to so many free pages. After that, you pay certain fees.
If there's going to be debate on--