Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members.
My name is Gary Switzer. I'm an analyst in the access to information and privacy protection division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. I've been working in the access field for seven years, but I just started with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade on January 2, 2007.
I worked on access files 466, 604, and 649. On 466 I was responsible for collecting the documents from the office of primary interest, for accessing their recommendations for the exemptions applied under the act, and for preparing the resulting recommendations for the director's approval. On files 604 and 605, the division had determined that the information being requested was already being produced or looked at in file 466, so I prepared a duplicate of that file and gave it to the director for her approval. And for 649, I believe it was, we told the individual requester that we would be giving him the information he was requesting in 466.
Thank you.