Welcome to meeting number seven 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 Thursday, January 13, 2022, the committee commenced its study on the collection and use of mobility data by the Government of Canada.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the House order of November 25, 2021. Members are attending in person in the room and remotely using the Zoom application. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. So that you are aware, the webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entirety of the committee. I would like to remind everyone that taking screenshots or photos of your screen is not permitted.
With that, I'm going to dispense with the rest of it and get right to it. We have three panellists in the first panel. There is certainly the possibility of a bell interrupting this panel, which we'll deal with when we come to that. I mention it just so that everyone, including our witnesses, knows that we're going to quite likely have limited time. Even with three witnesses, it gets fairly tight.
With that, I would like to welcome our witnesses for the first hour. Appearing as individuals, we have David Lyon, professor emeritus of Queen's University; David Murakami Wood, director of the Surveillance Studies Centre and associate professor in the department of sociology at Queen's University; and Christopher Parsons, senior research associate at The Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto.
Welcome to our committee. I think we have remarks in writing from all three. It's up to you if you also wish to give your opening statement orally. There's an absolute maximum of five minutes to keep on time.
With that, we'll begin with Professor Lyon.