Thank you to all for coming today and for appearing.
When we undertook our study of the Access to Information Act and the systems that were in place, many witnesses, including you, Mr. Rubin, began with fairly compelling and very strong cases on the current failings that existed under the status quo, with very forceful arguments on the need to change. In these presentations, many excellent concerns were raised about the anxieties Canadians have around privacy, changes to technology, and things that were hitherto seemingly science fiction that are now reality.
Can you comment on where the compelling case is for the need to rewrite the act as opposed to perhaps some of the policy-based things that are in place now? I'll let maybe each of you have half a minute or so on that.