We'll call to order the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics for meeting 154, an by extension, the international grand committee on big data, privacy and democracy.
I don't need to go through the list of countries that we have already mentioned, but I will go through our witnesses very briefly.
From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, we have Mr. Daniel Therrien, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
As an individual, we have Joseph A. Cannataci, special rapporteur on the right to privacy for the United Nations.
We are having some challenges with the live video feed from Malta. We'll keep working through that. I'm told by the clerk that we may have to go to an audio feed to get the conversation. We will do what we have to do.
Also we'd like to welcome the chair of the United States Federal Election Commission, Ellen Weintraub.
First of all, I would like to speak to the meeting's order and structure. It will be very similar to that of our first meeting this morning. We'll have one question per delegation. The Canadian group will have one from each party, and we'll go through until we run out of time with different representatives to speak to the issue.
I hope that makes sense. It will make sense more as we go along.
I would like to thank the members who came to our question period today. I personally thank the Speaker for recognizing the delegation.
I'll give Mr. Collins the opportunity for to open it up.
Mr. Collins.