Good morning, everyone.
It's great to see everybody back after our constituency week. This is our first meeting. Before I get to our witnesses and our guests this morning I'll remind members who are new, which is all of us, that when we're doing video conferencing you'll find that there is a delay between here and whether it's Montreal, Toronto, or Alberta in this particular case this morning.
What I would ask that you do is that you hesitate for a couple of seconds if you're going to switch languages or if you're going to begin your questions after someone is done speaking. You'll find that it's like a cellphone conversation when two people try to start talking at the same time because of the delay. Sometimes these things happen. For the sake of our translators and to make the meeting go as effectively and efficiently as possible for those of you who haven't done a video conference before just note that delay.
Colleagues, when we last met we had plans to have certain witnesses here. We had talked about having privacy commissioners from other provinces and information commissioners from other provinces as well, and they were able to join us today.
I would like to welcome from the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec, Diane Poitras and Jean-Sébastien Desmeules. From Toronto we have Mr. Brian Beamish, and from my home province of Alberta we have Ms. Jill Clayton.
Ms. Clayton, we are glad that you're up bright and early this morning. You have with you Kim Kreutzer Work and Sharon Ashmore.
You've been briefed on what the topic of our study is. The way we will proceed is I will give each of you an opportunity to provide some information to the committee and then we'll proceed to rounds of questioning.
We'll go for about an hour and a half. If each of our witnesses gives us up to 10 minutes that would give us about an hour or 50 minutes for questions and answers. We'll make sure everyone has an opportunity to ask questions and then we'll have about 20 to 30 minutes at the end of the meeting again to further refine the details of our study.
Without further ado I will start with Ms. Poitras.
You have the floor for 10 minutes.