Information & Ethics committee  We're going to roll out a training program in the new year, which is part of our tri-annual plan, to explain better to people—and not just to the liaison agents but to other senior managers in the organization—what our duties are under the Access to Information Act and how we take our responsibilities very seriously.

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly. In terms of the retrieval process, I wasn't there at the very beginning, but I'm not aware that this was the issue as much as the processing of the sheer volume of information that needed to be processed in order to answer the request. I think our document retrieval processes, considering the size of our organization, are adequate.

Information & Ethics committee  Ms. Thi Lac, in December 2010, we created a new page on our Web site, a completely redesigned page where we post information pertaining to the five most common types of access to information requests received since we first came under the act. As Mr. Lacroix mentioned, that includes information on agendas, senior management expenses, audits and retreat expenses, and the list goes on.

Information & Ethics committee  I would say things have levelled off. It was very tough in the beginning, though. Practically the entire team has turned over since the beginning. Right now—touch wood—it is going pretty smoothly.

Information & Ethics committee  In terms of briefing books, what we have determined with other organizations is that the practice very much varies. Some briefing books are withheld and some briefing books are not. As Hubert has mentioned, if the briefing books pertained to information that had to do with the programming or journalistic activities of the CBC, they would have been withheld under that principle.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll take that one, and Madame Legault can chime in. We're going to be circumspect. We are in front of the court, and out of respect for that process we'll limit our remarks to the generalities. As to the actual litigation with the commissioner, it's over a point of procedure, an important point of procedure.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I'd be happy to. As we mentioned, we initially had three and a bit resources. Now there are seven and a half resources. For the year starting April 1st, we added one and a half resources to the 22 coordinators working in our organization. These people help us do this work.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. Actually, Hubert has described it very well. The greatest fear we have concerning the application of the act is with regard to the protection of our journalistic sources. As Hubert indicated, there's a system in Canada where even a court does not get access to that information unless a very specific test, a very rigorous test, is applied by the judge.