Tom Wappel at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

I'd like to call the meeting to order, please.

I wish to apologize to our witnesses and to my colleagues for being late. I was misinformed as to the room number, and then when I called the committee room there was no answer to the telephone, so I apologize.

We welcome today, for meeting number 33, from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner, and Heather Black, assistant commissioner, who were kind enough to give us even more reading material before their appearance. Thank you for that.

We'll start with an opening statement, one presumes, from the commissioner.

Welcome.