Mr. Chair, I don't know where we can go on this type of thing. I'm a very strong supporter of access to information, but I'm not a supporter of access to information being used as a disruptive tool or a way of undermining an agency. As I said earlier, I think we will see that in other areas.
What this is, in my view, is probably an abuse of the system. The system was set up with the best of intentions, but this is an abuse of the system for somebody else's commercial interests or for a political agenda to get rid of or undermine our public broadcasting system, which I will admit I'm a strong supporter of. Do you have any idea how that can be handled?
On the other hand, I am concerned about the F rating for CBC, because, as the chair had mentioned earlier, we all use access to information, and in particular CBC journalists and reporters do, and they expect departments, the government, and others to abide by the rules. So an F rating isn't very good.
We're kind of caught in a quagmire here. We want to see the legislation abided by, but how do you prevent frivolous access requests or those for other political agendas from monkeying up the system?