Ladies and gentlemen, bonjour à tous.
Welcome to the 72nd meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. I know that some of our members aren't here yet, but I want to get moving because we have a limited amount of time.
I think you all have your agenda in front of you. I don't want to offend the witnesses, but rather than introduce you, I'll just leave that to our members. I'm going to follow this agenda for the opening remarks.
I would ask all of our witnesses to be as brief as possible. I understand that you already have prepared remarks, but if you could carve them down a bit, that way we'll try to get in as many questions as possible afterwards.
We'll begin right now with Mr. Geist, the Canada research chair in Internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa.
Please begin, Mr. Geist.