I call the meeting to order.
Good afternoon, everybody. We'll get started.
Our committee welcomes the guests we have here as witnesses.
We have Denis Talbot, television producer and host from MusiquePlus Inc. From Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, we have Avrim Katzman, professor. From BlackCherry Digital Media Inc., we have John Mark Seck, president.
By way of video conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, we have Dennis Chenard, director of industry relations for the Centre for Digital Media, and Lance Davis, chief financial officer for Slant Six Games and chair of the BC Interactive Group.
From the other side of the country, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, also by way of video conference, we have Michael Johnston, president and chief executive officer of TeamSpace.
I know the clerk has spoken to most of you about your opening remarks. Because of the number of witnesses, we will try to keep them to around seven minutes. In no particular order, for your opening remarks we will just follow the order we have on this sheet, starting with MusiquePlus.
After all individual opening remarks, we'll have a period of questions and answers for the remainder of the meeting.
I will say to the committee that I'm going to be leaving in about 20 minutes and our vice-chair, Mr. Nantel, will capably take over.
With that I turn it over to you, Mr. Talbot.