Thank you, Chair, and thank you for appearing. It's nice to see you again, Mr. Marleau.
For the better part of a year, I had the privilege of working with the other committee members on a report that was looking at recommendations to quick fixes, and I was really pleased to be a part of the group. To your point, I think we worked cooperatively, and it was a very good effort. There wasn't any acrimony to speak of, so it was a really worthwhile exercise, in my view, and we did come up with an excellent report that we tabled in Parliament.
That said, I have to say that I share the disappointment, and disappointment is an understatement. The response we received.... Having invested, as a committee, a lot of time and effort, it was dismissed basically out of hand, in my view.
You touched on the fact that you think access to information is a fundamental right. When the justice minister appeared before this committee, he had to leave, and I asked three of his assistants for a one-word response as to whether each thought, as a Canadian, access to information was a human right. They all responded no.
I'm curious as to what your one-word response to that question would be.