Last year I had a similar case with the Privy Council Office and I also asked them to discontinue this practice. It's reported in the annual report. They were following a similar kind of practice whereby the access to information coordinator--who by the way does not have the delegated authority--would say in the face of a request that these records are probably all cabinet confidences so they weren't going to retrieve them. We strongly objected to that with the Privy Council Office, and they changed their practice at that time.
That's why I'm saying I haven't had a chance to discuss this with CBC. They're not aware of the concerns I'm expressing this morning before the committee because I looked at this in preparation for these committee hearings and it is very recent.