Good afternoon. Welcome to the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology and to our 29th meeting this 16th of June 2009.
We're here to study Bill C-27, pursuant to an order of reference of Friday, May 8, 2009.
In front of us today we have four entities. We have Mr. Wally Hill from the Canadian Marketing Association, Susanna Cluff-Clyburne and Mr. Barry Sookman from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce; Mr. Bernard Courtois from ITAC, the Information Technology Association of Canada; and Madam Suzanne Morin appearing as an individual.
We'll begin with opening statements of about five to seven minutes from each of our four organizations, beginning with the Canadian Marketing Association.