Ladies and gentlemen, we'll convene our meeting, late as we are. We begin by apologizing to our witnesses. It was an unavoidable delay in that we had to conduct votes in the House of Commons.
We're here today as the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics to resume our study on the growing problem of identity theft and its economic impact.
We're pleased to welcome two witnesses, Mr. Avner Levin, an associate professor at Ryerson University, and Ms. Éloïse Gratton, a partner and co-chair in the privacy section of McMillan law firm in Montreal.
Welcome to both of you. We're going to invite you to make your statements, but we will have to truncate the round of questioning to one seven-minute round for each party. That should leave us time at the end of the meeting to conduct some committee business that we need to undertake.
We'll give the floor to you in whichever order you choose to proceed.