We have found it offensive that the CBC would go all the way to the Federal Court of Appeal in its disputes with the Information Commissioner in the past. We were gratified when the Information Commissioner's position was upheld in the Federal Court of Canada and in the Federal Court of Appeal.
For us, we find the spectacle of taxpayers paying for the Information Commissioner's lawyers and the CBC's lawyers to have a dispute between agencies of the Government of Canada to be profoundly offensive. We welcome any attempt by a member of Parliament to put an end to this nonsense. We herald Brent Rathgeber for his persistence in trying to improve the law to put an end to litigation. It is a travesty that different agencies, all funded by the taxpayer, would be going to federally funded courts to decide their differences. It makes no sense to us at all.