Good morning. I will call the 47th meeting of our committee to order, please.
Committee members, I just want to advise you that your steering committee met late yesterday afternoon to discuss the work plan with respect to the motion that was passed on Thursday and one other matter. I want to let you know that the steering committee report will come to you for discussion and approval or not on Thursday morning as the first item of business.
We are going to try to set up some witnesses, and hopefully they'll be available and ready to go should the steering committee report be accepted. If not, then I'll excuse them, of course. But I just don't want to lose a day if I can avoid it.
So that's how we're going to proceed.
Today we're continuing our study on identity theft, and we have people who we've seen before on other issues.
Welcome.
We have Mr. John Lawford, counsel to the Canadian Consumer Initiative. And we have the executive director of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, Philippa Lawson, and along with her is Mr. Mark Hecht.
I take it that there will be two opening statements, will there? Yes, okay.
We'll go with Ms. Lawson first and then Mr. Lawford, and then we'll go with the questioning.