Good morning. I'd like to call the meeting to order. This is our 43rd meeting, and pursuant to Standing Order 81(4), we're considering the main estimates for 2007-08: vote 40, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada, under Justice, which was referred to our committee on February 27, 2007.
Committee members, you will notice that there is a camera in the room. CBC requested that they be able to televise or tape this entire meeting, or whatever portion of it they want. They did it through the appropriate channels, so that's the case, that's why they're there. It's a fixed camera. They'll focus on the people who are speaking, and only the people who are speaking, or the person who is speaking--hopefully. So that's why they're there.
They can only get the back of my head anyway, and that's the worst part of me, believe me. The back is worse than the front.
We have today, from the Office of the Information Commissioner, Mr. Robert Marleau, Information Commissioner; Mr. Alan Leadbeater, deputy information commissioner, and no stranger to the committee; J.G.D. Dupuis, director general, investigations and reviews; and Ruth McEwan, director general, corporate services, corporate management branch.
You don't have to introduce them, since I just did.
Welcome. I presume you have an opening statement, and then we'll go right into questions.
Mr. Marleau, please.