Under the legislation, the requester's identity is protected. We don't assign or look for motives in doing our investigations in terms of why the requests are made. However, when we have situations like the one we had at the CBC, when in the first year it became subject to the act and it was in the public domain and there was one requester who had a large number of requests, we try to deal with them together. We developed an investigative strategy with the requester and with the institution so that we could maximize efficiency in terms of the investigation. That's what we do.
On March 21st, 2011. See this statement in context.