The information's free, but there is a small processing fee.

After the Chief Commissar of the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission, Jennifer Lynch, QC (Queen Censor), revealed the existence of a Nixonian enemies list earlier this year, Terry O'Neill of The National Post filed a Freedom of Information request to find out what the Commission had been saying about him. This is supposedly his "right" under Canadian law. Unfortunately, like so many other Canadian "rights", the Government can be somewhat stingy in the quantities you're permitted. Heather Throop, "Director General, Corporate Management Branch" of the CHRC, eventually wrote back to Mr O'Neill:

Alas, Ms. Throop informed me in a three-page missive that any further digging by the CHRC to fulfill my request would entail email searches, electronic records management system searches, typing and reading involving up to 100 employees and 6,284 hours of government time at $10 per hour, hence the $62,840 figure, of which I was requested to immediately send half (or $31,420) to Ottawa to enable my request to proceed.

I'm afraid the CHRC is a corrupt and diseased institution that's now all but unreformable. Its basic practices, its conflicts of interest and its peculiar vendettas cannot withstand scrutiny, so it obstructs that scrutiny in every way it can. Ezra is right: Fire. Them. All.

More from Scaramouche and Kathy Shaidle, who adds:

Maybe we should just call it "-dom." The word "free" has been redacted -- for your own good!