Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses.
I want to change the focus on disruptive technologies a little bit to how they impact people, not businesses.
When I was growing up, I was reading cartoons about Dick Tracy and his special watch where he could talk back to head office. A lot of these technologies we dreamed or fantasized about are here today. There are the movies Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II. I think the second one was about going to the year 2015, and here we are. Some of the stuff they got right, and a lot of it was still far-fetched. We have seen so many changes and so quickly.
You touched on Kodak. My dream location is Hawaii, and Kodak had this beautiful facility where you could watch the hula dancers and stuff. Well, they didn't see the clear signals, and you highlighted in your presentation that there were clear signals. They didn't see what was happening. They weren't flexible. They didn't change, and they are gone.
What are the clear signals that the government needs to identify and react to proactively? There is a change; it is happening. Traditionally, and not just in Canada, governments react instead of being proactive. How does this affect Canadians? How do we protect ourselves against identity theft? It is a growing problem. As technology changes, so does.... Thieves are out there and putting Canadians at risk.
Where are the disruptive technologies creating risks that the government needs to deal with? Some of the risks are just inconveniences. For example, when I was a boy we shot films on a little.... You would wind it up, and you would shoot films. Super 8 is what it was called. Then you would have those converted to a Beta or VHS. There were some companies that had copyright, even if they converted it over 20 years ago. I had all these old films put onto VHS. Now I want to be able to watch that. Because this is old technology, I can't have it put onto a DVD or a memory stick, because it is copyrighted by a company that is no longer in business, a long time gone.
Where are the risks we need to address, change, and adapt to? Where are the risks for identity theft, which is a huge problem? Could you touch on some of those issues?