Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the 46th meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science, and Technology.
We have a number of guests here: from Larus Technologies, we have Rami Abielmona, vice-president of research and engineering; from Open Text Corporation, we have Mr. Davies, chief legal officer and corporate secretary; from the Information Technology Association of Canada, we have Karna Gupta, president and chief executive officer; and from Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, Martin Lavoie, director of policy, manufacturing competitiveness, and innovation.
We'll begin with opening remarks.
Mr. Abielmona, you have a maximum of six to seven minutes for your opening remarks. We'll go to questions after that.
Please begin.