Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Bonjour à tous. Welcome to the 74th meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.
You will see that our agenda says we go from 3:30 to 5:15 p.m. It is my intention to suspend the meeting at 5:10 p.m., because usually everybody wants to greet the witnesses, etc. If we want 15 minutes of actual business, that transition time will be necessary. Also, as I've already mentioned, but just in case you didn't hear, you'll notice that there's about four minutes' difference between the clock on the wall and our BlackBerrys. As usual, we'll be using our BlackBerry time, because that's synchronized among all members.
Now I'll introduce the witnesses who are before us. Here with us on location we have Bogdan Ciobanu, vice-president, industrial research assistance program, National Research Council; also Bryon Drew De Kergommeaux, director of strategic and operations alignment, industrial research assistance program; and Jason Charron, executive director, national office, industrial research assistance program. Also, here with us from the Canadian Cloud Council is John Cousens, director for the public sector, and by video conference is Martin Kratz, chairman of the board of the Canadian Cloud Council.
It's my understanding, Mr. Ciobanu, that you'll be doing the opening remarks for the council. Is that correct?