Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good afternoon, Mr. Nicholson. You are asking us to do another study of something that was looked at quite a long time ago. Back in 1987, we had begun consideration of the bill, then we had another look at it in 2000, 2001 and 2005.
Like your Liberal predecessor, Irwin Cotler, you are asking us to consider the bill yet again, even though you know full well that the Information Commissioner of the day, Mr. Reid, had suggested a complete bill to the government in October 2005 in order to bring the government in step with the realities that he had brought forward as Information Commissioner.
Mr. Nicholson, within the next few months, will you implement the recommendation that was made during a meeting that this committee held in September 2006, namely, that the government table new legislation regulating access to information?