There was a court decision. Mr. Justice Boivin made it clear. He ruled on it, and he made it clear that the Information Commissioner is the appropriate person to vet 68.1. CBC decided, using a whole bunch of taxpayers' money, the court's money, and the money we use to fund the Information Commissioner and her legal staff, to appeal it to another court level.
I'm offended by that. I read the decision of Mr. Justice Boivin. It's clear. The Information Commissioner was here on Tuesday. I think she's an absolutely phenomenal public servant of this country. I trust her judgment to make a decision on whether 68.1 applies or not. I don't the CBC ought to continue to appeal court decisions ad nauseum just because they don't agree with the ruling.
Your members are filing access to information requests all the time in the job they are doing. Being good journalists, they try to get to the root of stories that the public needs to hear. But I don't see why the CBC should be above the law. They seem to think they are. I would think that as watchdogs and unionized members working for the CBC you would be concerned about how the corporation is spending its money, and that you'd be taking a much stronger position on the actions the CBC is taking in this regard.
Quite frankly, they're flouting the law and deciding they're going to make all the rules about what applies and what doesn't.