Okay.
So what would be the benefit to a private citizen of filing this, of wanting to know what a middle-level bureaucrat in some department somewhere was being paid, assuming the amount was $160,000 and greater? I mean, what would be the benefit, of the thousands and thousands of people who work for the government and for crown corporations at that level...which I still think is a level, like the sunshine list in Ontario, where it's $100,000 and greater?
I'm trying to wrap my head around what the real public benefit value is of average citizens filing these ATIP requests all the time, to find out what someone's salary is at a medium level within the public service. What is the ultimate overall benefit of that? Someone's hired to do a job. They're being paid within a salary range that has already been established within the public service at whatever level they've been hired to work at.
I'm just trying to get my head around the real public service benefit of this kind of disclosure on these potentially hundreds of thousands of ATIP requests or information requests coming in every year to find out what Joe Smith makes working in the Department of Public Works.