Thank you for coming and thank you for the presentation made by your office a week ago. It was a great pleasure for me to talk to you and to hear what you've been doing.
I think Canadians are more interested in this issue, particularly with modern credit card payment methods and innovations by people who want to do bad things. It also has to be acknowledged that they are creative, even though we aren't entirely happy about that creativity.
My questions relate to the four organizations you focused on. You mentioned in 1.1 of your summary that the Office of the Privacy Commissioner examined the key elements of the policy frameworks of Elections Canada, Human Resources and Social Development Canada, Service Canada, and the Canada Revenue Agency. Collectively these institutions manage extensive personal information on just about everybody in Canada. Is that why you selected them for this audit?