Right to Know Week originated in Bulgaria in 1999. The day of September 28 is actually Right to Know Day internationally.
In Canada, we celebrate it as a weekly event. We collaborate with our provincial and territorial colleagues. It was significant this year because we were actually able to have a national event for the first time. We shared a common trademark for Right to Know Week. We shared seminars via webcast. We had four events. Mr. Chairman participated in one of the panels. We had a legal panel, an international panel, a session on the new age of government information disclosure with Senator Fox, and an evening with journalists and academics in relation to access to information. CPAC collaborated with us, so at virtually no cost it was televised across Canada.
For me, the major success of Right to Know Week, which is to bring access to information to Canadians, is that my father was able to watch it in his living room. To me, that's what Right to Know Week is all about; it's to actually spread the word about the importance of access to information.
We also collaborated with the Canada School of Public Service, which webcast the Senator Fox seminar so that it would be available to all public servants.
So for us, this year, it was not only significant because we were able to have several events in collaboration with universities as well—the University of Ottawa and Carleton University—but also that it was done in a manner that was accessible to all Canadians across Canada, in both official languages, and that we had tremendous collaboration from our provincial and territorial colleagues.