Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you as well to the witnesses for their testimony.
In his testimony before this committee on March 9, the Information Commissioner told us that the Conservatives' Federal Accountability Act was the most significant reform to the Access to Information Act since its inception in 1983. David Loukidelis, the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, Stanley Tromp, the author of Fallen Behind: Canada's Access to Information Act in the World Context, and Murray Rankin, a lawyer specializing in information law and author of the preface to Fallen Behind, all agreed that the Federal Accountability Act was the most significant reform to the Access to Information Act since its inception. The same was true of Michel Drapeau and Marc-Aurèle Racicot, as well as Duff Conacher, when they appeared before the committee on Monday.
Would either of you disagree with this assessment?