Good afternoon, colleagues.
I know that many of us are anxious, as this is the last week of four before we go home for a constituency break week, but we have with us some very distinguished panellists to help us in the deliberations on our current study, which is on the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, more affectionately known by Canadians on a daily basis as PIPEDA.
From the Centre for Law and Democracy, we are joined once again by Mr. Michael Karanicolas, a senior legal officer, by video conference.
It's good to see you again, Mr. Karanicolas.
As an individual, we again have joining us Teresa Scassa, a full professor at the University of Ottawa.
Thanks, Teresa, for joining us again. It's always a pleasure to have you here.
For the first time ever appearing before the committee, in his debut game—I mean, debut “appearance”—we have Florian Martin-Bariteau, assistant professor with the common law section of the Faculty of Law and the director of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa.
As we normally do in this committee, we'll have a 10-minute opening statement from each of you. We'll simply go in the order in which I introduced you. I think everybody here is familiar with how this happens.
We'll start with you, Mr. Karanicolas. You have up to 10 minutes, please.