Welcome, colleagues, to the 61st meeting of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, for the continued consideration of the study of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, PIPEDA.
I apologize to our witnesses for the committee's tardiness today. We have good reason. We are all just getting here from the House, where House business took us a little longer than anticipated after question period.
We'll get right to it.
We have an hour and forty minutes remaining so we should be able to get through this with no problem.
I am pleased to be joined today by Mr. Robert Watson, president and chief executive officer of the Information Technology Association of Canada. We also have Mr. André Leduc, who is the vice-president of government relations and policy.
From the Consumers Council of Canada, we have Mr. Dennis Hogarth, vice-president.
From the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, we have Scott Smith, who is the director of intellectual property and innovation policy.
Each organization will be given an opportunity to have about 10 minutes for their opening remarks. We'll go in the order in which you were introduced.
From the Information Technology Association of Canada, Mr. Watson.