Pierre-Luc Dusseault at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

I call the meeting to order.

Good afternoon. Welcome to the 63rd hearing of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. Today we will continue our statutory review of the Conflict of Interest Act.

We welcome our two witnesses, Mr. Conacher, who is a member of the board of Democracy Watch, and the chairperson of the Government Ethics Coalition; and Ms. Turnbull, who is associate professor at Dalhousie University.

As usual, our witnesses will have 10 minutes for their presentation and then we will have a question and answer period.

So without further ado, I will yield the floor to Mr. Conacher for the next 10 minutes.