I call the meeting to order
Welcome, everyone. It's great to see you. This is the 29th meeting of our committee. We're continuing on with our study of the review of the Privacy Act.
We have only two witnesses today. We lost a witness, unfortunately, and we hope everything goes well, but we're still very pleased to have, from the Centre for Law and Democracy, Michael Karanicolas, senior legal officer. We also have Mr. Vincent Gogolek—no stranger to this committee—who is the executive director of the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association.
Friends, normally we have about a 10-minute opening statement and then we proceed to rounds of questions by all members. We try and encourage every member of Parliament to have an opportunity to ask questions.
Michael, are you ready to go? Is that okay?