I call the meeting to order.
We are continuing our study of the access to information request for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade internal report entitled “Afghanistan 2006: Good Governance, Democratic Development and Human Rights”.
Today, from the Department of Justice we have Denis Kratchanov, director and general counsel from the information law and privacy section. He has been here before. Welcome, sir.
From the Treasury Board Secretariat we have Jim Alexander, deputy chief information officer; and Donald Lemieux, executive director of information, privacy and security policy. Welcome to you as well.
Does anyone have an opening statement? Okay, both of you do, so we'll let you both go.
I just want to remind everybody that we're here looking at that document, but particularly about the access to information issues surrounding it, including the request, how it was responded to, and what the government's policies and Treasury Board policies are surrounding that. Perhaps opening remarks can more or less focus on those things.
Mr. Alexander, go ahead.