Thank you, Chair.
Chair, I wanted to begin by saying that I know there have been some challenges to you personally lately regarding your chairing of this committee, and I want to express my confidence in your work. I believe you serve this committee extremely well and very fairly. I just wanted to begin with that comment this morning.
I want to thank Ms. Stoddart and Ms. Bernier for being here yet again, and also thank you for the work in your annual report. There's a lot going on at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and some very important work.
I wanted to go through the Minister of Justice's response to the committee on our report and get your observations about some of the points he makes.
The first one is in the fourth paragraph of the Minister of Justice's response to our report, where he responds to the idea of bringing the Privacy Act and PIPEDA in line. He seems to point out that there are two difficulties with that. One has something to do with the legislative mandate, that there's a problem deriving from the authority to carry out mandates from federal statutes, and the other is that there is some requirement around charter compliance.
I wonder if you could comment on those two points the minister makes.