First of all, thank you very much to all of you for being here.
The question I have is kind of unique, because all three of you practise under different models. B.C. has the order-making powers; Nova Scotia has recommendation powers; and Newfoundland has a hybrid model.
All of you act as privacy and information commissioners, and as you know, in the federal government, the office for information and the office for privacy are separate. In March, the Privacy Commissioner made a submission requesting the hybrid-model types of powers, and this committee, in its review of the Access to Information Act, recommended the order-making powers for the Information Commissioner. The Privacy Commissioner, having heard that the Information Commissioner got full order-making powers, also requested full order-making powers.
If you could just imagine both of your offices being split, how would you balance that? Do you think it's necessary that both the office of the information commissioner and the office of the privacy commissioner have the same powers, or should they be different? This question is to all of you.