Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
In the past 20 months that I have been on this committee, I have come to appreciate the work we could do as a committee when we look at access to information, privacy, and ethics. Most recently, we had the interim Information Commissioner come to talk to us about proactive disclosure and possibly open government.
Unfortunately, in the last few weeks I've had to call others to fill in for me on this committee, only to come back to find that this committee has been frustrated in doing that very important work by several motions made by members of the opposition that we begin to look into allegations of blocked access to information.
I think the reason we find ourselves here today is that there has been an unwillingness by a number of members from the opposition to hear from our ministers. We talk about--