Thank you very much, Ms. Chair.
Mr. Laurin, you gave a very good analysis of court proceedings in this country. It is imperative that we keep reminding the Conservatives how they like to talk about how this is a waste of money. Mr. Butt refers to it several times, about why they are appealing this decision. That's our court case, that's our system of government, those are the fundamentals: that an individual or group has a right to exhaust its levels of appeal, and I thought you did a very good job on that as well.
Also, I think Mr. Butt needs to be educated about the competitive nature of some of the requests. We had the head of Quebecor come in here, and he gave us two examples of some of the requests they require from the CBC, wondering about their outdoor advertising and information around a magazine production they were involved in. So there are two exact examples of how Quebecor is trying to get a competitive advantage--that's really the crux of this--and how we use section 68.1 to protect the competitive advantage. I don't think you mentioned it, and if you said it, I'll apologize, but I'm reading it here in your brief that you sent. It's the same as Fedex or UPS using ATIP requests to find the competitor information about Canada Post. That's exactly why we are here, and this is why this Quebecor media campaign is based...they may be looking for 20% legitimate freedom of information types of requests, but it is modelled on this competitive advantage.
Mr. Laurin, I know, mentioned it a little earlier. Let's just talk about section 68.1 and the competitive advantage and how we can protect the CBC, Canada Post, and other crown corporations from being attacked over competitive information so that we can educate those members across the way.