Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Bonjour à tous. Welcome to the 35th meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.
As always, we have an issue with our clocks. You'll see they're all over the map, so we're running by our BlackBerry time, which says 8:45 exactly right now--at least for the members of Parliament. Our witnesses probably have different personal digital devices, but we'll be going by this time.
We have four witnesses before us today. The first witness is from UBM TechInsights, Harry Page, chief executive officer. As an individual we have Richard Gold, who is a professor in the faculty of law, McGill University. From Microsoft Canada Inc. we have Chris Tortorice, corporate counsel; and from Hockey Canada we have Dale M. Ptycia, senior manager of licensing.
We'll give each person six to seven minutes for their opening statement, and then we'll go to our rounds of questions.
I will just go by our agenda here. Mr. Page, would you please go ahead, for seven minutes?