You have to think of the overall public interest. The general public of Canada or of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, whichever you're dealing with, has an interest in making sure government expends its funds wisely and soundly and doesn't waste them.
Why should a particular citizen who will make a request for an incredible amount of material be able to place that burden on the taxpayers generally? Or why should a collection of such citizens be able to place a burden of 10,000 such requests on the taxpayers generally? If they're going to make a request, they have to be prepared to pay the cost of it, because it can get to be extreme.
What we did put in was a provision for waiving that fee in circumstances where it's clearly justified, one of which Mr. Letto mentioned. Where it's determined that it's in the public interest to make the information public, the fee wouldn't be charged.