In fact, requests of that nature are exceptional. It is very rare that we accept that type of request precisely for the reasons you raise. The right to access information is a quasi-constitutional right. The request for information truly has to be abusive or frivolous and an abuse of the right of access for our commissioner to allow an institution to decline to respond to a request.
I am glad that there is a lot of jurisprudence on this. We have had this authority for just a few years. Over the past three or four years, out of 30 or so requests for permission to decline a request for information, I accepted maybe five. It is very rare for the request to be extremely abusive.