Not sure it's new, City of Kelowna wanted to charge me $14,000 to search some emails because I, as a journalist, am a commercial applicant. To fight it requires some precision because losing would be disastrous. Maybe this helps. www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/or...

Maybe this is helpful www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/or...

City of Kelowna tried to charge me $14,000 to search for some emails in 2017 because they considered me a commercial applicant. I didn't fight it for the same reason, this can't become entrenched. Why aren't FOIs to the province charged like this?