Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Bonjour à tous. Welcome to the 13th meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.
Colleagues, as I've mentioned before in other rooms, you will see we have slight deviations of the clocks so the time on our BlackBerrys will be the time we synchronize with.
Before us today we have five witnesses. We have two witnesses from ACTRA - National. One is Marit Stiles, director of public policy and communications, and the other is Simon Peacock. From the Canadian Interactive Alliance, we have Serge Landry, president and chief executive officer, and Deirdre Ayre, member of the Other Ocean Group Canada. By video conference we have Jocelyn Benoit. He's a professor at École des arts numériques, de l'animation et du design.
I will follow the schedule as it is before us, and so I will begin with ACTRA. Marit Stiles, I understand you are going to be sharing your time. Please begin.