Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
I'll call to order our meeting of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.
We're here today to deal with the main estimates for a series of officers of Parliament. I welcome them here today. It's rarer than hen's teeth, kind of like spotting a whooping crane, to see an officer of Parliament before our committee, so it's a great treat for us.
The way we're going to conduct ourselves is this. We'll introduce the subject by saying that we are here to deal with vote 1 of the main estimates for the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying. I believe it's vote 1 and vote 5 under the offices of the information and privacy commissioners of Canada.
For the first hour we're going to welcome Ms. Karen Shepherd, from the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying.
Ms. Chantal Bernier, of course, is the Interim Privacy Commissioner from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
That opens the subject. We'll give the floor to our two witnesses and then allow questioning afterwards. The way we have it in order on our agenda is the Office of the Privacy Commissioner first.
Ms. Bernier, would you like to take five or ten minutes to speak to the main estimates of your department? Welcome.