Good afternoon, everyone.
Welcome to meeting number 51 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.
Today’s meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the House of Commons order of Thursday, June 23, 2022. Therefore, members may be attending in person or remotely using the Zoom application.
Should any technical challenges arise, please advise me. Please note that we may need to suspend for a few minutes as we need to ensure that all members are able to participate fully.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(h) and the motion adopted by the committee on Monday, May 16, 2022, the committee is resuming its study of the access to information and privacy system.
Since all witnesses are appearing in person, no sound checks were conducted.
I'd now like to welcome our witnesses for today.
From the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, we have Colleen Calvert, director general, corporate secretary; and Alexandra Drago, director of access to information and privacy.
From the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, we have Derek Melchin, director, access to information and privacy and executive services; and Lesley Soper, director general, national security policy.
From the Privy Council Office we have David Neilson, executive director; and Matthew Shea, the assistant secretary to the cabinet, ministerial services and corporate affairs.
From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police I want to welcome Danielle Golden, director, privacy; and David A. Janzen, the director general, access to information and privacy.
I believe the committee has been supplied with some briefs.
Ms. Calvert, you are going to be starting today. The floor is yours. You have a five-minute opening statement, please.
Thank you.