Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for coming today. This is a very interesting discussion.
I represent a region that's bigger than Great Britain. Many of my communities have no roads. The opportunities of digital learning are so exciting for our communities: to get access to higher levels of education, for retraining of students, and for people who have been laid off to be able to go back to college. They simply wouldn't be able to do it if they had to travel and add in the cost of living in a complete other community.
So I'm very concerned about the provisions in this bill in terms of long-distance learning, particularly proposed section 30.01, which tells students that if they go into a digital learning environment, they have to destroy their class notes 30 days after a semester is finished.
I'd like to just ask you why this bill would essentially cripple the rights of students in a digital learning environment when the opportunities are so immense.