Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm not trying to put you hard on the spot here, but there have been numerous editorials raising the question of conflict of interest with your position. So for you to say you can't answer questions on the biggest single piece of legislation that's defining privacy rights in this Parliament, that you have no opinion or that you're going to defer your opinion, I find concerning.
On the issue of Bill C-13 being split into parts, do you feel you're in a conflict of offering an opinion when it has been the opinion of the privacy commissioners across the country that the bill should be separated? If you say you want to ask “tough questions” and improve control mechanisms, will you just tell us whether you think it would be better to have that part of the bill separated?