Good morning, everyone.
We're going to call this ninth meeting of the special Legislative Committee on Bill C-32 to order.
I'd like to wish everyone a happy new year, now that we're back in action, moving this bill through the legislative process.
As part of that, we now have a new clerk, so I'd like to introduce to the committee our new clerk, Andrew Chaplin. Welcome, Andrew.
For the first hour we have a number of witnesses. We have Alain Pineau from the Canadian Conference of the Arts. We have Bill Freeman from the Creators' Copyright Coalition, as well as Marvin Dolgay, president of the Screen Composers Guild of Canada.
We will have five minutes from each of our witnesses and then we'll start the questions around the table.
Mr. Pineau....