Information & Ethics committee  Forgive me; do you mean operational difficulties in terms of proactive disclosure, or operational difficulties just for the ATIP branch at large?

Information & Ethics committee  The RCMP is a relatively unique organization in the sense that one of our challenges is that when we have big events like we've seen in the last couple of years, like major floods, evacuations, the Emergencies Act, the deployment of RCMP personnel, that takes members' attention a

Information & Ethics committee  From the RCMP, we're not aware of that technology.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. The RCMP has contracts with two consulting firms for a total of about 12 consultants. Our total FTE count is around 70 FTEs, and our final funded amount is just over 100. It's about 110 FTEs.

Information & Ethics committee  It's the same for the RCMP.

Information & Ethics committee  It's the same here: it's through the two firms previously mentioned.

Information & Ethics committee  For the RCMP, I can confirm that we're also working with Altis. Forgive me; I don't have the second contract off the top of my head, and so I'll have to get back to the committee. My apologies.

Information & Ethics committee  Our backlog dates from around 2017 as well.

Information & Ethics committee  Mr. Chair, ladies and gentlemen of the committee, hello. My name is David Janzen. I'm the director general of the access to information and privacy branch at the RCMP. I am joined by my colleague Danielle Golden, our new director of privacy. I'm honoured to be invited to spea