Thank you, Madam Chair.
I appreciate the discussion here today. I want to just ask you, Mr. Péladeau, to elaborate a little bit more on some of these get-the-facts points that have been raised recently.
It says here, and we talked about it a little bit, that Quebecor has received more than half a billion dollars in direct and indirect subsidies and benefits from Canadian taxpayers over the past three years, yet it is not accountable to them. I've heard others come before this committee trying to make the argument that if an organization, a company, a business receives a tax credit, takes advantage of a tax incentive program—which obviously costs the federal coffers money, but not directly, as it's an indirect cost, simply money not collected on behalf—that would be similar to receiving a direct subsidy or a direct cash transfer from the Government of Canada, which of course CBC does get, to the tune of over $1 billion a year to provide a mandate for that investment.
Do you think it reasonable that section 68 of the access to information law would apply to every business that takes advantage of a tax credit, or a tax incentive policy, to have to publicly disclose information through the Information Commissioner if an access to information request were filed? Is that a reasonable thing to do? Because every car dealership, every gas station, everybody would then have to. If we followed through on that policy, someone hiring an employee, using the hiring tax credit, someone using a tax credit in their business, or even an individual using a tax credit to fix up their back yards during the home renovation tax credit would somehow suddenly be open to an access to information request. Do you think that's reasonable?