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Good afternoon. I'm Gaylene Schellenberg, a lawyer with the legislation and law reform directorate of the Canadian Bar Association.
The Canadian Bar Association is pleased to have this opportunity to present our views on reform of the Access to Information Act to you today. The CBA is a national association of over 38,000 lawyers, law students, notaries, and academics. An important aspect of the CBA's mandate is seeking improvement in the law and the administration of justice, and it is from this perspective that we appear before you today.
With me are two representatives of the CBA's national privacy and access to information law section, both of whom specialize in access to information law and privacy law. David Fraser is the current vice-chair of the section, and is from McInnes Cooper in Halifax, and Priscilla Platt is an executive member of the section from Heenan Blaikie in Toronto.
Mr. Fraser will begin with a general perspective, and Ms. Platt will then highlight some specific issues we've raised.