Thank you. I do appreciate the opportunity.
Obviously those of us around this table find this incident to be absolutely unacceptable, completely unacceptable. I can tell you that the minister has made that clear. Obviously Canadians know that.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has been contacted with regard to this and has been made fully aware of it. As well, every one of the clients whose information was involved in the breach has been contacted. They have been offered all kinds of protection in terms of Equifax protection and the rest.
It's an important issue. I don't think anything is going to change in the next hour and a half, so I'd like to see that deferred to the end of the meeting. I think this is an important discussion that we need to undertake, but we do have witnesses waiting here, and I think it would be appropriate that we hear from them.
In an hour and a half's time, I think we can move to deal with this in future business, as it was pertaining to our committee's schedule. At that time I think we'd be able to have a good discussion, but be able to first honour our witnesses who are here. They have taken time out of their day to be here, and I don't want to squeeze them out.