Thank you, Chair.
The objective of this is to be consistent with the recommendations made by this committee in May 2016 to extend the coverage of the legislation to deal with a plethora of quasi-autonomous, non-governmental organizations, subsidiary crown corporations, namely those entities for which the government has 50% or more but that are not covered by the existing definition. That is the objective of the amendment before you. I think you'll see that it's consistent with the ethics committee's recommendations 1 and 2 of May 2016. Chair, I think it's consistent with the principle and scope of Bill C-58 in that this is an amendment to the Access to Information Act. We're simply trying to extend its coverage as this committee has recommended in the past.