Information & Ethics committee  The last two or three years, I'd say.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't believe any of them have been fulfilled.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, for example, we sent them the roster of executive members of the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting and asked CBC if any of those people were on the CBC's payroll or had received public contracts, or if they were in any way beholden to the CBC. And they refused to answer. We

Information & Ethics committee  There was a Radio Canada documentary on the Nordiques—and here I should mention that we are actively opposed to the idea of spending public funds for a hockey arena in Quebec City—that coincided with some political activity in Quebec City and we thought the timing was suspicious.

Information & Ethics committee  We just want to know what it cost.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. We are just like any other research organization or your caucus researchers. After you hit your head against a brick wall and you realize that they're never going to answer any of the requests, you don't bother filing them. We could have filed 100 requests and had all 100

Information & Ethics committee  And in fairness to the CBC, we have had very public scraps--very nasty, ugly public scraps--with the government over its access to information. We were invited to appear here. We didn't apply to come here and dump on the CBC today; we were asked to come and share our experience.

Information & Ethics committee  I think when you appeal to the Information Commissioner and you get a positive ruling, and they still refuse to acknowledge it, and it has nothing to do with any of their journalistic integrity or programming or any of their exemptions, then you can draw the conclusion that tryin

Information & Ethics committee  Sure.

Information & Ethics committee  It's definitely on the list of things that many of our supporters believe should be....

Information & Ethics committee  When I thought about this visit, I honestly didn't consult the last survey as far as the funding goes. It's up there. It's in the top twenty, I would say.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  No, we did one and appealed it to the Information Commissioner. We won, and they still refused to comply.

Information & Ethics committee  No, we file hundreds of these things, and we don't specifically target the CBC. The CBC isn't a big project of ours.