Good morning, Mr. Chair. Thank you.
My name is Veena Rawat, and I'm the president of the Communications Research Centre. We are an agency of Industry Canada.
With me today is Bernard Caron. He is the vice-president of the broadcast technology branch at the Communications Research Centre. We call it CRC.
The CRC is an agency of Industry Canada. We conduct research and development in the areas of wireless and satellite communications and network technologies as well as broadcasting. The CRC has the only laboratories dedicated to the evaluation of advanced digital broadcasting technologies in Canada.
As the Government of Canada's main research laboratory in telecommunications technologies, we provide technical advice to departments and other federal organizations on the impact of technologies on their mandate. Our research and broadcasting covers such areas as multimedia broadcasting, interactive television, digital radio, satellite transmission, as well as Internet TV, IPTV, and 3D TV. That's a mouthful.
It will be our pleasure to answer questions relating to any of these technologies. First, I will request Mr. Caron, who will present on some items related to over-the-air broadcasting.
Bernard.