Mr. Marleau mentioned to us last week, I believe, that a significant number of complainants he deals with under the federal system are what he described as “data brokers”. I understood that to mean commercial organizations that gather information for their clients and resell it to them. Perhaps that points out a difference between provincial areas of jurisdiction and federal areas.
If that were the case, would you agree that commercial organizations, such as data brokers or lobbyists or even lawyers in private practice, as I was before coming to Parliament, should pay a reasonable cost of providing that information, given that they're going to resell it to their clients in any event?