Good morning. I'd like to call the meeting to order.
This is our 44th meeting. Pursuant to Standing Order 81(4), we're considering the main estimates, vote 45, specifically of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner under Justice, which was referred to the committee on Tuesday, April 25, 2007.
Before I introduce our witnesses, there's just a small matter I'm seeking the guidance of the committee on. I presented the report of the committee on our statutory review of PIPEDA yesterday in the House of Commons. About an hour before that, it was brought to my attention that, in the opinion entitled “Dissenting Opinion” of the Conservative members, in the last sentence of section 4.0, under “No Stakeholder Input Before the Committee”, the last sentence reads “Minister Day’s letter is attached as an annex to this dissenting opinion.” When the dissenting opinion was received by the clerk, that letter was not in fact attached. The dissenting opinion was sent to the printer without that letter because it wasn't attached, so this document I presented to the House did not contain that letter.
In addition, if the letter were to be attached, it would exceed the five pages for a dissenting opinion this committee decided upon. I am just inquiring whether the committee would have any objection if, in the 350 copies we're going to print for general distribution, notwithstanding the previous discussions and agreement by the committee, we could agree to simply annex the minister's letter as referenced by the Conservative members in their dissenting opinion on recommendation 14. Would that be all right?