My questions are already thought out, Mr. Chairman. I would just like to comment on your decision. I find it very ironic that we are unable to ask the minister responsible for access to information any questions in order to get clarifications on this.
Mr. Tilson, allow me to make some comments to the chair. You made your remarks. I respected you, please respect my comments.
I would like to make this comment, Mr. Chairman, but I will ask the Minister a question about his availability.
We asked you to appear before the committee on a number of occasions, minister. At one point, we even had to invite in all of your deputy ministers and your senior officials to ensure you would come. It was only then that you agreed to come and see us, with the proviso that you would be coming six months later. In the end, because of the way things worked out, you never came before the committee. Now that we are discussing privacy and the obsessive culture of secrecy, you agree to come at our first invitation, but the purpose of access to information is to discuss the public's right to know.
Are you behaving in this way because your government has no intention of being transparent?