Okay, I just want to shift you a little bit in the comfortable pew here just for a moment. You said that if a server breaks then you will have to close the shop. These sound like very dramatic decisions that you are thinking you are going to need to potentially take. In another instance you said, “Unless my budget is increased, I have only one option going into the next fiscal year to keep within my appropriations: to cut the program”.
I just want to challenge you that maybe we have the solution here in plain sight, which we haven't perhaps included, and that's why I'm asking you to look at the other side of the equation. We all know that every department would like a lot of increases in funding and that it's always a balance in government between how much you can tax taxpayers and then you dole it out among health care transfers, old age security, and environmental protection. It isn't an unlimited pit and we have to make our case, and make our case strongly, and then provide some kind of a balance.
It does look to me like you have a garden growing outside your window right now and a lot of people, particularly in business, as you've testified before us today, are anxious to receive the information you have and right now are paying five dollars, and they are multimillion-dollar businesses, which, in every other facet of the world, including the world I came from in newspapers, they are paying for information, and a great deal, and as you've said, that five dollars, however you look at it, is a very small sum.
I'm wondering if I might encourage you to just look at that as a possible answer to your questions rather than this very difficult process of trying to think about this passion that you love, being the Information Commissioner, and wanting to make this information available and looking at having to make cuts. You can look at cuts, or you can grow your pie.