Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I have adequately taken control of my mute button, and I apologize for the earlier disruption.
Mr. Dufresne, I always appreciate you when you appear before this committee. In so many ways your work guides the work that we do, not just in the committee but as parliamentarians.
I would like to reference your 2024-25 departmental plan, in which you have survey results on the protection of privacy rights that I find very concerning. In the 2022-23 survey, only 39% of respondents felt that businesses respect their privacy rights. That's down 45% from 2020-21. Only 58% of respondents felt that the federal government respected their privacy rights, and again that was down from 63%. Both of these results fall well short of your target of 90%.
Can you explain why these numbers are so low and what can be done to reverse this downward trend?