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On behalf of all members of the committee, I want to welcome you before us. This is the meeting of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics of the House of Commons of Canada. We are continuing our study on open government.
Before I introduce the witnesses, there is one very quick administrative issue I want to deal with, because I might forget at the end of the meeting. Excuse me, witnesses; this will just take a minute.
Members, you have before you the upper limits of a budget for the lobbying study we're going to undertake in about three weeks' time. We have 10 or 11 witnesses lined up. Most of the witnesses are from the Ottawa area, so I don't expect it to come anywhere close to that, but you've seen the list of witnesses and the chair would invite a motion that this budget be accepted.
Mr. Siksay.