CBC president Hubert Lacroix was back on Parliament Hill Thursday insisting the pubcaster already fully accounts for its programming expenditures with oversight agencies like the CRTC, and may appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada an appeals court case it lost this week over corporate disclosure.

“Accountability and transparency are central to our philosophy, and critical to our credibility,” Lacroix told government and opposition MPs on the House Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee.

The CBC also gained some advantage after the Parliamentary committee said it would return unopened documents requested from the CBC, now that federal Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault had been given the go-ahead by the Federal Court of Appeals to view those documents.

“I’m happy that the committee has taken notice of our concerns,” Lacroix told the politicians.

But the CBC president would not back down from the possibility that the pubcaster may appeal its federal appeals court loss to the country’s highest court, a course of legal action Conservative MPs suggested should not be taken.

“Protecting our journalistic sources was one of the most important considerations for pursuing this court challenge. As we have said from the beginning, the courts are the appropriate place for this to be decided,” Lacroix told the MPs.