Fine. Thank you.
My name is Murray Rankin and I am a lawyer practising in Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia. It's a great honour to have been invited to testify before the committee today.
On a personal note, I must say that greater government transparency has been an issue of concern to me since university. I helped exercise political pressure for the first Access to Information Act before it was proclaimed in force.
As a representative of the Canadian Bar Association, I completed my thesis at Harvard Law School on the subject. I was greatly [Technical difficulties - Editor]