Every time

The extraordinarily-frequent radio guest sputters, “every time we apply for that information” — being that concerning fisheries activity outside 200 miles — the Access to Information co-ordinators find some way to deny it.

The radio host commiserates. He’s expressed the frustration before. Whenever he’s gone on a federal ATIP fishing expedition, those nasty Canadians cut his net.

They sputter and commiserate over one another’s words. “Every time,” they sputter. “Every time,” they commiserate, as if they are constantly filing ATIP requests and constantly being stonewalled. You know, on a go-forward basis.

But here’s the thing. The CAIRS database shows the most recent ATIP requests with the word “overfishing” or phrase “200 mile limit” in it were in April of 2006.