Allow me to disagree with you, Madam Chair. In a democracy, there is no cost to the truth or to obtaining information. As a parliamentarian, I have the privilege to obtain information in both official languages. So it makes me very uncomfortable to hear you say that access to information could be compromised for fear that it would cost too much.
If you like, we can make a list of everything that costs the federal government too much. I think we could spend several hours on this at the committee. I find it sad that you are telling us to consider scaling back our requests, as parliamentarians, because translation may cost too much.