Information & Ethics committee  Thanks for your question, Mr. Kenney. The speculation in the e-mail was not that Mr. Bronskill was the requester. It was that he may end up writing a news article about the information that has been released.

Information & Ethics committee  I would say that speculation as to the likely result of news articles based on ATIs is not a common practice.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Kenney, the two individuals you're referring to are Ms. Croy and Ms. Thompson. The article was published in The Gazette, I regret. I do not recall specifically any instance when they would have asked to be added, but that doesn't mean that they didn't.

Information & Ethics committee  No, sir, because the call summary that was being distributed in fact had nothing to do with the circulation of ATIP requesters and was a legitimate summary of a phone call on communications issues that pre-dated the current government and I would consider to be common practice. T

Information & Ethics committee  Can you clarify? I'm not exactly sure what you're asking.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't want to add anything, except to thank the committee for the opportunity to appear and to reiterate that in fact we are not privy to the names of requesters and never have been.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't know what the staff in Mr. Day's office are doing. As it pertains to that e-mail, it is an improper characterization of the e-mail, because I don't work for Mr. Day.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  It was the prospective identity of the person who would possibly write an article. Again, you need not be the requester to have the document.

Information & Ethics committee  Absolutely not.

Information & Ethics committee  None.

Information & Ethics committee  I do not.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm happy to respond, Mr. Martin. I agree that we should not be circulating the names of access to information applicants far and wide. In this case, that's not what happened. First of all, Mr. Bronskill was writing stories about this issue fairly frequently, as I mentioned.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. As Mr. Eisler said, my name is Greg Jack, and I'm a senior analyst in the Communication and Consultations Secretariat at the Privy Council Office. If it pleases the committee, I would lik