I call the meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 46 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.
Pursuant to the order of reference of Thursday, February 12, 2026, section 14.1 of the Lobbying Act, and the motion adopted by the committee on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, the committee is resuming the statutory review of the Lobbying Act.
To our witnesses, I will remind you that members may ask questions in both English and French. Make sure you have the right interpretation on for what you need. If you do need interpretation, just allow the interpreters to finish the response or the question. Then you can respond as well.
I'd now like to welcome our witnesses for the first hour today. As an individual, we have Maxime Boucher, an affiliated researcher from the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa. From the Government Relations Institute of Canada, we have Muhammad Ali, vice-president and board member.
To both of you, I apologize for the late start. Obviously, we had votes, which delayed the start of the meeting.
Mr. Boucher, you have five minutes for your speech.