Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's great to be here with you as chair and with all my honourable colleagues. It's been two or three years since I've sat on the ethics committee. I sat here for a period of time. I always find this committee to be very important in many ways. It undertakes a lot of serious studies, I would say.
I welcome the panel members here today.
First off, I want to say to the panel members, to all your members and to all the employees of the federal public service, thank you for everything you do, not only for what the members of the Library of Parliament do to help us MPs out, but also for what you do for literally millions and millions of Canadians every day in delivering services and benefits to them.
I would also like to say that we have hired folks in the federal public service over the last several years. We have rebuilt it after the devastating cuts, as I would characterize them, from the prior administration, from the Harper government. They literally cut to the bone. We know what it was like to be a federal public servant under a Conservative administration, do we not?
First off, the member for Brantford—Brant recently said here at committee that if people are public servants, there are no privacy issues.
I'll ask you, Jennifer, and you, Nathan, do you believe public servants are entitled to privacy?