I disagree that we don't have any mechanism in Canada. Whether we are at the federal level or the provincial level, we all have a disposition in our act that allows institutions to request permission from their commissioner to not respond to requests that are vexatious, in bad faith or an abuse of the act, of the process.
With regard to the example you provided, for one institution that may be an abuse of process because of the size of the institution, but for another one it may not be. It really depends on the way the request is posed, who it's addressed to, how they're working with the.... We've had that happen many times.
Right now there is a system in place, and people are using it. It's the same thing in the U.K. and Australia. I think we do have the process in place.