Good morning and welcome to this meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. This is meeting No. 40.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we are going to study the issue of counterfeit goods.
Our witnesses today are: Mr. Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair Internet and E-Commerce Law, University of Ottawa; Mr. Paul Hoffert, Chief Executive Officer of Noank Media, Faculty Fellow, Harvard Law School and Mr. Bob Sotiriadis, lawyer and partner, Léger Robic Richard.
I welcome all the witnesses and thank you for coming.
We're going to proceed first with Mr. Geist, followed by Mr. Hoffert and Mr. Sotiriadis.
Mr. Geist, you may take the floor.