Thank you.
Welcome all, and thank you for cooperating with us, with some very useful advice from your various expertises.
As a partisan British Columbian, I would like to, if I may, just throw a rose to FIPA, which has done for almost 15 years now extraordinary work in British Columbia to ensure that we have in that province one of the finest information and privacy regimes in the country.
Gentlemen, perhaps first to FIPA, we do have a combined office in British Columbia, and we don't federally, although administration has been shared at some points in time. We've heard from both John Reid and Commissioner Stoddart over the last few days, and we're facing a regime and a new set of independent offices. They can be seen, from one perspective, as a proliferation that, while they're set up to assist members of Parliament to better keep a check on the executive, become so numerous that it becomes very difficult for them sometimes not to be drawing power away from legislators, rather than as an adjunct to it. So some of the concern is that there is just too much confusion in Parliament, in the public, in the media, and certainly in the public administration, as to who they're dealing with and who they're accountable to.
I'm wondering whether you have formed an opinion, given your experience in British Columbia, on whether it would be wise to start consolidating some of these offices, in particular with respect to information and privacy offices.