Thank you, Mr. Chair.
First of all, welcome Honourable Reid, and your counterparts as well.
We had the minister here and I asked him some questions. I'm going to feed them to you as well, because oddly, I could not get a clear answer from the minister.
The first one is on the reforms mentioned in the discussion paper from the minister's department, which are modestly targeted at around $170 million a year. Canadians are not hearing those numbers. They've been led to believe that this is all a very straightforward exercise and that ordinary taxpayers will just suddenly consent to millions and millions of dollars to make this government appear more transparent. The fact is that seven crown corporations, which include Canada Post, Via Rail, and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, are only partly covered under the access act.
With that price tag for the reforms, how much further ahead are Canadians?