Thank you, Mr. Chair, and to everybody here also. Thank you, Mr. Wudrick and Mr. Holman, for being here. To both Mr. Murray and Mr. Ring, thank you for being here via teleconference.
It was very interesting to hear, Mr. Murray and Mr. Ring, your presentation, particularly the part that outlines the hybrid model that you've chosen. I'd love to learn more. Obviously, today is just a short presentation, but I think there's some benefit from it.
Again highlighting an issue that my colleague brought up, it's unfortunate that the budget indicated that we're moving to an order-making model without hearing presentations such as yours first. It would have been excellent to hear them, particularly since the budget indicated that they're informed by consultations with the Information Commissioner, stakeholders, and parliamentarians. We on this committee haven't put forward a report yet. We were looking forward to doing so. I guess we've been scooped by the budget.
Again, I appreciate your taking the time to be here.
My questions in particular go to something Mr. Wudrick brought up. I think everybody in this room may be curious to know a bit more detail.
One of the recommendations from the Information Commissioner is to invite non-Canadians into the process of requesting ATIPs. A question was posed to a previous witness—Professor Drapeau, who has been mentioned before—about having a priority for Canadians first. This is something that makes sense to me. I'm not saying quite yet whether I'm for or against opening it up to non-Canadians—there's obviously the financial side of it, which worries me a little—but I've been thinking a lot outside of committee meetings about how we would give the priority to Canadians first.
Are there any suggestions, thoughts that you guys might be able to elaborate upon from your end? How could we pose a recommendation back to the Information Commissioner on that very opportunity, to give Canadians a first priority?