I'm sure we are.
What I was going to say with regard to Madam Simson's motion was that since we adopted that other motion at the last meeting, it really is kind of moot at this point, until we find out what happens by January 15. I assume that we will allow that motion to simply remain dormant at this time.
I understand that there is going to be a vote in the House on Thursday morning, which means that this committee will be interrupted. I'm not sure that it would be a productive time for us. What I'm suggesting is that we not call a meeting for Thursday.
The following week there will be a series of votes carrying on and a number of important issues going through the House in a couple of areas. It may be very difficult for us to really get our heads around anything new.
What I'm going to propose is that on either Tuesday or Thursday of next week, once we get a better idea of the business of the House, we have a preliminary get-together with the steering committee to start talking about anything that could be done by our support crew over the break to explore certain things. I would encourage those who are not on the steering committee to pass on to the reps things you would like to do.
One of the suggestions that came to me is with regard to the Access to Information Act, which we know has been extremely difficult to deal with in terms of updates. We'll certainly get more information.
One of the possibilities would be for us to undertake some sort of study on proactive disclosure, which basically is a move towards putting government information directly on the Web and alleviating the workload. There are a couple of jurisdictions that already have that.
We could do some work on that to educate ourselves about some of the other things happening around the world in terms of providing good transparency and openness and so on. That may be one of the things that we could discuss and report on to the House.
Those are the kinds of things I mean.
Our principal work is access and privacy. I hope we can continue to seek ways in which we can have some input on how to improve performance in those areas.
Is there any further business for the committee? None?
The meeting is adjourned.