Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you very much, Ms. Stoddart and Ms. Bernier, for being with us today.
I certainly enjoyed reading your annual report. Thank you for that and for the work you're doing through your offices. I think it's an extremely important role. Certainly, Canadians need to feel comfortable that their privacy is being protected, so it's very important that we have these updates and so on.
I'm going to refer to page 1 of your report. You state that the “...report explores two of the most serious threats to privacy today. In two often intertwined themes, we report on the urgent need to integrate privacy protections into state security measures, and on the impact of information and communications technologies on the privacy of individuals.”
Could you explain to us what the privacy impact assessment process is? How do you determine that?