Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Under the Investment Canada Act, agreements are made with foreign companies, parts of which are confidential in the sense of being proprietary business information.
We have an instance now in which so-called secret parts of that act—which I believe are really confidential parts, as opposed to secrets—are being asked for. In fact, a judge has ruled that the information could be released. The government is not moving ahead with the release of that information, based, I assume, on the notion that the judge may not have the right or that there is still the possibility of signatories to the confidential agreement challenging the release of the public information.
Are these kinds of agreements all vetted through the Privacy Commissioner or someone else in his office when there is an Investment Canada Act agreement or other federal agreements with private or confidential parts in them?