Thank you, all three, for being here today. For those of you who travelled here, thank you for taking the time to come before our committee. I believe it is important.
I would like to ask some questions, maybe more on the topic at hand and less about your backgrounds or character, if that is okay, and also to remind my colleague across the way that it has been about 200 days, not necessarily 80 days, that we have been in this new, “sunny ways” government.
We heard from the minister about frivolous and vexatious requests. He came before us about a week ago and indicated that the removal of certain fees and having certain fees is a way to filter frivolous and vexatious requests.
I am curious as to your thoughts. Hopefully, we have time for all three of you to weigh in on what you see as a hurdle in terms of making requests and, if there are certain requests out there that obviously the minister sees as frivolous and vexatious—I would imagine you don't consider your requests frivolous or vexatious—on a way to mitigate some of those.