You, like me, and like everybody who works for the CBC, are paid in large part by the taxpayers. My salary is public. My expenses are public. You can go online and look at how much I make, how much I spend on all of these different categories. Ontario, for instance, has a sunshine law that everybody paid over $100,000 who works for the Government of Ontario is subject to. Does privacy extend only to the point where the CBC starts?
Why would a journalist's salary, paid for by the people of Canada, not be open? Why would their privacy be more important than that of a member of this committee, than that of all the people who work for the Government of Canada? Why would that be considered under section 68.1? That strikes at the heart of everything. We can't truly understand whether the CBC is being administered properly if we can't get access to the information we require. This section 68.1 can be used as a tool to protect people and make sure that the CBC can compete, but it can also be used as a tool to prevent parliamentarians from effectively seeing the full scope of the organization.
I see you are taking the privacy route. I don't accept that. People who are paid by taxpayers relinquish privacy to a great extent. I want to know: has a request like that been made, and how has it been treated?