Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to exercise the motion that I have on deck in regard to what I said at committee. I'm going to ask the indulgence of members and our witnesses, and I'm going to be as brief as I can, because I think it's important to get this out of the way. Hopefully, the members will support it.
For members who don't have it in front of them, the motion is as follows:
To assist in the review of the Copyright Act, that the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology request Ministers Freeland and Bains, alongside officials, to come before the committee and explain the impacts of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on the intellectual property and copyright regimes in Canada.
First of all, it is challenging for the clerk and the chair to be able to get the ministers. We have Thanksgiving, and we don't have a lot of time before we rise for the Christmas break.
I hope that members would support this motion. There's a lot that's in this new agreement, and I think it impacts our work that we're doing here today.
I would ask for members' support in this request.