I call this meeting to order.
Welcome, everyone, to meeting number 142 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(h) and the motion adopted by the committee on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, the committee is commencing its study of the privacy practices of delivery and ride-share applications.
I'd like to welcome our witnesses for the first hour today. From the Rideshare Drivers Association of Ontario, I have Mr. George Wedge, who's the president. Welcome, Mr. Wedge, and thank you for your patience.
From Uber Canada, we have Jonathan Hamel, public affairs manager.
What I did was this. We had a second-hour witness who was already in the room, so I've invited her to come to this first panel, which is going to give us a little bit more time with our witnesses today. Because of the votes, we're already 40 minutes past our scheduled time to start.
We also have Vass Bednar, who is the executive director of the master of public policy in digital society program at McMaster University. Thank you for your patience, Ms. Bednar.
I expect that we could go until 5:30 or 5:45. It will be up to the committee members, if they don't have any further questions.
What I'll do, as we have done customarily in the past, is reset and allow for six-minute questions from our friends from the Bloc and the NDP, once we get past this first round. We've done that in the past, so I don't expect there to be any problems with that.
I'm going to start.
Mr. Wedge, you have five minutes to address the committee. Go ahead, sir, please.