I mean, it definitely affects the content of stories, and the political content of stories as well, if we're talking about state information.
I'd just point out, on the RCMP topic, that not only is the RCMP not acknowledging.... I had a communication from them five or six years after I filed the request. They sent me a letter asking me if I was still interested in my request.
To your question, just by comparison, in the United States the act privileges public dissemination of knowledge. If you have an urgent issue of government activity that you need to report on, you can be at the top of the queue in terms of expedited processing, which here we don't have.
It surprises me that not more journalists are coming before this committee, especially of legacy media institutions, where this is their business: the public dissemination of knowledge, especially as it pertains to the state. There is an absence of this, which speaks to a lot of the points—to a disinterest in access to information from journalism as a whole, and, as a result, to the quality of journalism about the government.