Blaine Calkins at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

I hope that's clear. We're good.

All in favour?

(Motion agreed to)

Now we can start doing some expenses.

Colleagues, Tamir Israel and Wesley Wark are with us.

Thank you very much, gentlemen, for your patience as we deliberated a very important budget. As you will find out, your expenses will now be covered for coming here today, if you had any. I thought it was going to be a no-brainer until Mr. Blaikie piped up, but it's all good.

We have Mr. Wesley Wark, visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa; and from the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, we have Mr. Tamir Israel, who was recently before the committee.

Welcome, gentlemen. We have one hour. We will let each of you proceed for up to 10 minutes with opening remarks, and then we will proceed to rounds of questioning. I will just go in the order in which I have you here on the agenda.

Mr. Wark, the floor is yours.