Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Bonjour à tous. Welcome to the thirty-second meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. We have a cavalcade of witnesses with us today.
From the University of Waterloo we have Scott Inwood, the university's director of commercialization. From the University of Manitoba we have David T. Barnard, president and vice-chancellor, and Digvir Jayas, vice-president, research and international. As an individual we have Catherine Beaudry, an associate professor in the department of mathematical and industrial engineering at the École Polytechnique de Montréal. By video conference we have Gay Yuyitung, the business development manager at the McMaster industry liaison office.
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. We're very happy to have you here informing us for our study right now.
Why don't we go first to the person who is remote.
Madam Yuyitung, could you go ahead for seven minutes with your opening remarks, please?