Evidence of meeting #14 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was commissioner.

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On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Vincent Gogolek  Executive Director, B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association
Duff Conacher  Coordinator, Chairperson of Open Government Coalition, Democracy Watch
Ezra Levant  President, TheRebel.media, As an Individual

10:40 a.m.

Coordinator, Chairperson of Open Government Coalition, Democracy Watch

Duff Conacher

The Information Commissioner did it last year, the government did it the year before that with the open government partnership planning and review process under the international open government partnership situation. It's been done and been done again and the same recommendations keep coming up.

It's time to act.

There's no need or justifiable reason for delay.

10:40 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Blaine Calkins

Good.

Colleagues, we've just got a couple of minutes left.

I just want to thank our witnesses for coming today and I hope you've been able to say everything that you wanted to say at the committee. We certainly appreciate the skeptical criticism that was here. It created a great conversation.

I want to thank my colleagues and just remind them that we're going to resume Tuesday next week. Mr. Robert Marleau, the former clerk of the House of Commons, will be here. We also have three ATIP coordinators from three departments, and we're trying to get a fourth one as well. We're going to be able to directly talk to ATIP coordinators and find out just what is that they would like to see changed as well.

Colleagues, thank you very much for your time.

To our witnesses, thank you very much for being here.

The meeting is adjourned.