Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, witnesses.
My first series of questions are to Mr. Therrien.
You were the Privacy Commissioner during the development of the replacement for the Privacy Act in the last Parliament, Bill C-11, and presumably in the run-up to the development of this one. The current Privacy Commissioner was here last week and said essentially that he personally wasn't the commissioner who was consulted on it.
This is a critical bill because it's a complete replacement of the Privacy Act. It's not an amendment.
I'll start by asking you if, in the development of Bill C-11, the Minister of Industry of the day—I believe it was Mr. Bains—consulted with you before the bill was tabled in Parliament.