Welcome to meeting number 51 of the Standing Committee on Science and Research.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the House order of June 23, 2022. Members are attending in person in the room, and we do have a member on Zoom as well.
I'll make a few comments for the benefit of the witnesses. Thank you to the witnesses for getting teed up.
I'll recognize you by name before speaking. If you're participating in the video conference, just click on your microphone icon to activate your mike. When speaking, please speak slowly and clearly. When you're not speaking, please mute your mike. If you need the interpretation on Zoom, there's a globe icon at the bottom of your screen where you can choose floor, English or French. For those in the room, you know about the earpieces.
Although this room is equipped with a powerful audio system, feedback events can occur. These can be extremely harmful to the interpreters and can cause serious injuries. The most common cause of sound feedback is the earpiece being worn too close to a microphone. Therefore, we ask all participants to exercise a high degree of caution when handling the earpieces, especially when your microphone is on.
In accordance with the committee's routine motion concerning connection tests, I've been informed that those have been done. I will remind you that all comments should come through the chair.
To get us started, pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(i) and the motion adopted by the committee on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, the committee commences its study on the use of federal government research and development grants, funds and contributions by Canadian universities and research institutes in partnership with entities connected to the People's Republic of China.
It's my pleasure now to welcome Christian Leuprecht, a professor from the Royal Military College of Canada, by video conference; and Jim Hinton, intellectual property lawyer, also by video conference.
You'll each have five minutes for your opening remarks, and then we'll go to our rounds of questions. We'll start with Mr. Leuprecht.
The floor is yours for five minutes. Thank you.