Thank you.
Through you, Mr. Chair, to Mr. Therrien, I just want to introduce myself as the honourable member representing Hamilton Centre. I only have about six minutes, so I'm going to put some questions to you in a rather rapid way. I ask for your forgiveness if it seems as though I might move you along on a particular question to get to the next one.
I share the concern of members around the table about the discrepancies regarding what we heard in our February 3 meeting, last week, what the Public Health Agency of Canada presented, along with the minister, in terms of what the engagement was with your office. I've heard you now say that you were informed. I'll share with you that in the previous meetings there was the implication that there was a collaboration or a consultation.
I want to be clear on the difference between having your office be informed of something on an ongoing basis versus what it might look like if you were actually engaged in consulting with the department on matters of privacy. In a brief description, can you just lay out the difference between those two things?