Mr. Hubert T. Lacroix at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On November 24th, 2011. See this statement in context.

November 24th, 2011 / 10:25 a.m.

President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The answer is simple. We received 491 requests from Mr. Drapeau's office during the first six months that we were subject to the Access to Information Act.

We took a look at the BBC. The population of England

is about 70 million people. The BBC get about 80 requests per month; we figured half of that.

So we were prepared to receive 40 requests. Initially, we assigned three people to that task. Clearly, we did not anticipate how interested our friends at Quebecor would be in our activities and operations.

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