Welcome, everybody, to beautiful, sunny Vancouver. This is meeting 114 of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, as we continue our study, the five-year legislated review of the Copyright Act.
We've been seeing witnesses for a few weeks already. This week we've been on a five-day road trip, in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. It has been an invaluable trip, because we have met with such a diverse group of people who have given us lots of information to contemplate as we continue to move forward.
If you've been following the proceedings, we've divided this up into sections. Each section is meant to help us build our own information and knowledge on copyright. We will be meeting with authors, radio, television, and publishing. It has been quite enlightening.
We're supported, of course, by our wonderful staff. We have translators here, so when you speak, perhaps you could speak a little slowly. Everything said today will be recorded, as well as translated.
Our clerk keeps us on track, and we have two of our three analysts with us today. Our analysts are the ones who will take all this information and help us by doing briefing notes and giving us background information, and at the end of the day, will help us write our reports and our recommendations. We look to our wonderful, magnificent analysts to do that. We have other support staff here as well.
Thank you all very much.
Today we have with us, from the University of British Columbia, Susan Parker, University Librarian. From the British Columbia law association, we have Christine Middlemass, President.