If everyone can take their seats, please, we'll start momentarily.
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming to the second part of the fifth meeting of the Legislative Committee on Bill C-11.
We are very short for time for the second part because of votes that will be happening later on tonight. We will be going until 5:30, when we will have bells, and we will be asking for unanimous consent from all parties to carry on for about 15 minutes afterwards.
What we have asked the witnesses and guests to do is to shorten their opening statements to five minutes, which allows us to get through at least the first round of questioning, in which a lot of the information that you want to share comes out.
We also have hard copies of your opening statements, so thank you. I encourage all of the members around the committee table to read those opening statements in full.
We have, from Audio Ciné Films Inc., Jean-François Cormier and Bertrand-Olivier Desmarteau. From Criterion Pictures we have John Fisher and Suzanne Hitchon. From Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinéma we have Yves Légaré and Sylvie Lussier.
We will start off the presentations, for five minutes, with Audio Ciné FIlms Inc.