Shawn Murphy at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

I will now call the meeting to order.

I want to welcome everyone here.

This meeting, colleagues, is really the start of our study into the Lobbying Act. The statutory review of the legislative provisions of the Lobbying Act has been referred to us.

We have a number of witnesses scheduled. The first witness we want to hear from is the commissioner herself, Karen Shepherd. She's with us today. She's accompanied by René Leblanc, the deputy commissioner. Mr. Bruce Bergen, senior counsel, is also here.