Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you so much for coming today.
I was watching a television ad just a short time ago in which someone had been able, with their cellphone, to look at the speech that was being presented by a coach as he was talking to his teammates. He talked about how great it was that he was able to just move that thing down to YouTube and bring it right into the school so they could cheer them on. But here I think of what you mentioned just a few moments ago about the misuse of social media. Obviously they looked at it from that perspective of saying, “Isn't this great?”, but I think you're taking a look at the other side of it as well.
I was a schoolteacher for many years. Thinking back to when I went to university, it was always nice to be able to get somebody else's notes, if you didn't make it to class or whatever. But here it's just a case of “Why don't you just tape what's going on?”, and you can send it to your friends. Then I started looking at the propriety of what is being produced by the instructor and all of these other types of things and the types of protection you have.
That may or may not be associated with the privacy issues we're speaking of today, but nevertheless, it's one of those kinds of things that people have to be aware of. This means that institutions have to start bringing up certain rules in schools, where they say that you're not going to be able to go on Facebook or you're not going to be able to bring your cellphones or anything else into the classroom.
Those are the kinds of things I see. So when we try to bring some policy and some thoughts together on this, I think your comments on that would be something that I'd appreciate.