I will now call the meeting to order.
I want to welcome everyone here.
Bienvenue à tous.
This meeting, colleagues, was called pursuant to the Standing Orders. On the agenda today, we're going to hear from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in relation to the annual report of that office. The committee is very pleased to have with us Jennifer Stoddart, the Privacy Commissioner.
On behalf of all members of the committee, Ms. Stoddart, we want to thank you. I know that you've come before the committee on reasonably short notice and that you've had to rearrange your schedule, so for that we do want to thank you.
However, before hearing from Ms. Stoddart, I would like to deal with the minutes of the steering committee meeting held earlier today. Those minutes have been circulated. I will highlight them.
Basically, the minutes outline the recommended future business of the committee in dealing with the study on the street imaging application, the Google issue. There was a report, of course, issued by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner today, which I'm sure most members have not had an opportunity to read yet. The decision of the committee was to call back Google, invite back representatives from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, and continue our discussion on the draft report on the study of street imaging, which is the same thing.
The decision was also to continue our discussion of possible committee reports. This is to deal with a report we did earlier on open government and proactive disclosure.
Last is a change to our routine motions. I'll read it:
The committee recommends that a member (Liberal) be added to the subcommittee and that the routine motion be changed accordingly. It is understood that the chair will not vote in a tie at any subcommittee meetings.
Those are the minutes. The chair will entertain a motion for their acceptance.
Go ahead, Madame Freeman.