Order, please. I would like to extend to everyone a welcome.
This meeting is called pursuant to the Standing Orders. It's a bit of a continuation of a meeting we held a couple of months ago, and also perhaps a look into something we'll be doing shortly, I understand, and that is the five-year legislative review under the Lobbyists Registration Act.
The committee is pleased to have before us today, for the first hour and a half, from the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying, the commissioner herself, Karen Shepherd. She is accompanied by the deputy commissioner, René Leblanc, and senior counsel Bruce Bergen.
Colleagues, at five o'clock we will deal with the minutes of the steering committee that took place earlier today and then go in camera to hopefully conclude the final report on the Google study, which we've done for quite some time now.
I understand that Mrs. Shepherd's presentation is going to be a little longer than normal because of the nature of the presentation.
Mrs. Shepherd, the floor is yours.