Thank you very much for joining us here today. I really appreciate your taking the time to be here.
I'm just going to start by reading a couple of headlines from over the years.
In 2024, in The Globe and Mail, there was an article with this headline: “The promise of government-official accountability is vanishing—along with their texts”.
In 2025, CTV News had the headline, “'Hypocrisy is next level:' Canadian officials criticized for using disappearing messages on Signal”.
Then, to start off this year, in January, Blacklock's Reporter reported that there was a memo sent out, effective January 26, telling staff to “delete in-house chat posts within 15 days.” The quote in the article was, “Keeping it longer increases risk and does not align with information management principles”.
Were you made aware of this decision prior to its being enforced by the government?