It's an extension rather than a refusal.
You've heard testimony that some of these requests are bogging down the system, putting gum in the system—30 million pages. You have to look at the facts. We're doing evidence-based policy here.
If you look at last year, the average number of pages processed per request across the system, for all institutions, was about 200 pages. In terms of the two institutions that you've heard from, CIC and CBSA, the average number of records per request from CIC, or IRCC, was 53 pages, and for CBSA it was 75 pages.
It's true that there are a number of requests that are large, but that could be dealt with under the frivolous and vexatious and bad faith provisions.