Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
Hello everyone.
Welcome to the sixth meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. We'll be commencing our study on the e-commerce market in Canada.
Members, I'll just briefly introduce our witnesses.
We have Helen McDonald, who is the senior assistant deputy minister of spectrum, information technologies, and telecommunications. Janet DiFrancesco is the director general for the electronic commerce branch, and Chris Padfield is the senior director, digital economy planning and coordination. It sounds like we have all the right people here.
From the Competition Bureau we have Matthew Kellison, who is the acting assistant deputy commissioner of the civil matters branch, and Lisa Campbell, deputy commissioner of competition, fair business practices branch.
I take it there will be one person from each organization with opening remarks. Is that correct?
We'll start with Industry Canada first. Please commence, for ten minutes.