I believe there are two parts to your question. One relates to fees as a way of dissuading requesters, and the second part is the actual proposals for some sort of legislative change related to frivolous and vexatious.
We actually prefer the second aspect. We think fees are not a very effective way of doing this. If somebody has resources and wants to, let's say, conduct a vendetta against a department, they are able to do that. The imposition of fees doesn't really change that.
However, bringing in legislative change to try to deal with.... As I set out earlier, we heard about the government's proposals only very recently, so we didn't have time to do a complete study of what happens across Canada. The numbers are very small, which doesn't mean they don't exist.
There are people out there who will abuse the system, and something has to be done. We would prefer that it be dealt with directly. We think it is very important that this be dealt with by the Commissioner, with the public body, the department, or the crown corp going to the commissioner and saying, “Here is this request; here are the circumstances”, where they have to meet the test—rather than just saying, “This requester has put in two requests in one month. We are completely swamped. I don't know what we are ever going to do. We are just going to ignore that, and if the requester doesn't like it, then they have to go to the commissioner.” I don't think that is the way to go.