Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you all for being here this morning.
I want to get this back on track, because I think we're skating around a whole bunch of stuff. This is about the CBC, in its infinite wisdom, deciding that it doesn't trust, I suppose, the Information Commissioner to appropriately vet whether section 68.1 applies in the case of a number of access to information requests. That's going to be my line of questioning. I want to keep us on that because that is why we are here.
I was quite shocked, Monsieur Laurin, when you said that we should be considering who is making these requests. Any Canadian can make a request for access to information. I don't think it matters whether it's Quebecor or Mr. Andrews or anybody else. We all have the right to these kinds of things. CBC is a crown corporation that gets $1 billion of taxpayers' money every year; it has a responsibility to disclose.
Of all the crown corporations we have, the Information Commission red-flagged two—CBC and Canada Post—as having very poor track records of compliance with the act. Many others she praised. AECL and VIA Rail got very high marks from the Information Commissioner when she was here.
So we know we have a problem with the CBC. I want to ask you again, both Mr. Morrison and our friends from the Canadian Media Guild that want to answer: do you not believe that the Information Commissioner, as an independent officer of Parliament, is the right person to determine whether section 68.1 applies or not?