Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, as I stated before, to do so, in my view, would be going against the trend internationally in terms of the access to information regime. That being said, whether or not to move to a certain cost recovery system is a policy decision . I would perhaps issue a word of caution about administering a cost recovery system.

Information & Ethics committee  It seems to work fine. If I recall, when David Loukidelis, the commissioner for B.C., was here testifying in the spring, he did make some comments that it was working fairly well.

Information & Ethics committee  We have not.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not an easily frustrated person.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not aware; I would have to verify and provide you with that information.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not quite sure I understand your question.

Information & Ethics committee  The statistics in terms of the requests are published by Treasury Board Secretariat. The statistics published by Info Source for last year, because those are the ones that are published, show that roughly 42% are from businesses. That's 42% of the total requests.

Information & Ethics committee  As well, 34% are received from the public, 14% from the media, 9% from organizations, and 0.8% from academics.

Information & Ethics committee  Access to information requesters do so anonymously. We cannot question their motives—

Information & Ethics committee  —under the legislation. So in fact I don't know, in terms of the total number of requests, what interests they represent.

Information & Ethics committee  We would know that the complaint.... Do you mean in terms of the Info Source statistics?

Information & Ethics committee  It's Treasury Board Secretariat that collects the statistics. I don't see all of those requests.

Information & Ethics committee  Certainly.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  No.