Thank you, monsieur le président.
Thank you, Mr. McKay, for coming. I'm really pleased that Google is participating in this study. The overall frame of the discussion that we're having here is that we see the incredible potential for new media: the innovation, how it's transformative, democracy, innovation arts, everything. That being said, the risks, if data is breached, are also enormous. We're playing in a whole different game and you are the biggest player on the field. So what Google does has a huge impact.
I would like to say at the beginning that I was interested in your comments on Gmail. I've never seen spam on Gmail. I've left other services and I've even seen our extraordinarily good House of Commons spam has gotten through on our private servers in a way that I've never seen it on Gmail. So I was impressed with that.
I also want to compliment you on Google+. I think the idea of the separate circles is huge. I know many young people in my riding befriend me as their MP, and sometimes I want to check to see who they are, and I'm seeing all kinds of high school conversations that I really don't believe I should be seeing, but it's out there. If they had a Google+ system perhaps....
Again, it might be a case of Beta versus the VHS right now in terms of new media. So I encourage you...but you don't have the market share.
I guess I'd like to start by asking you about some of the breaches that we've seen, because when the breaches happen they're enormous. The FTC levied a $22.5-million fine for the breaches on Safari, in getting around the Apple cookies.
What was that about? And what have you done to address it?