Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and members. Welcome to the third meeting of the committee studying Bill C-11.
We want to remind all members that as part of our first meeting we asked to have all these meetings televised, so I'm expecting you to be on your best behaviour.
With that, I'd like to start by introducing our witnesses today. We have Mr. de Beer, an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa; Mr. Trosow, an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario's Faculty of Law and Faculty of Information and Media Studies; and Mr. Gannon, a lawyer at McCarthy Tétrault. Welcome, gentlemen.
I believe we'll start off with 10-minute presentations. I'm giving you my very friendly and nice warning now that at 10 minutes I will step in and unfortunately cut you off if you haven't wrapped up by that time.
We'll start with the first person on the list. Mr. de Beer, if you're ready to get under way, please go ahead.