They knew they were being recorded because at the outset of the consultation participants were told these proceedings were going to be recorded because we wanted to use their comments in writing our report. They were not told that the consultations were public. If they had been told that, we wouldn't have had the privacy issue that we had in this case.
Obviously, our department would get, as many departments do, many access to information requests a year. We don't consider this an access to information request per se. You're a parliamentary committee; we recognize the need to provide you with timely information. Nevertheless, information we hold that gets shared with others we treat carefully and systematically, and that's why we zeroed in on the issue of personal information that could be contained in these recordings.