I will call the meeting back to order. We are going to start our second panel discussion. I have a couple of announcements before we get to that.
I want to remind members that tomorrow is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women. You will remember that years ago the most savage, violent attack in Canada happened at École Polytechnique, and women engineers—I have to say that they were my sisters—were killed in an act of horrific gender violence. Please remember tomorrow. I know that we're not meeting because of votes in the evening, but I'm sure there will be other activities going on to remember that by.
The other thing I want to let you know is that when we were discussing our next study at committee and how we were going to move forward, we were going to have a bunch of the economic development area networks come and speak first. They've all declined to appear—amazing—so we have an opportunity instead to have one panel discussion with ISED, ESDC, and StatsCan, along with Status of Women. We could have that whole bunch come and talk to us in the first hour. For the second hour, the analysts have agreed to get our work plan ready by Friday and sent out to us, so that we can start talking about the work plan and at least agree on some of the initial meetings in the new year. Unless there's an objection, I'm going to suggest that we do that.
Without any further ado, we want to welcome our witnesses for this panel discussion. We have with us Sandra Robinson, who is an instructor at Carleton University. I will just let you know that Sandra wants to be sure she can hear your questions, so if you would ask them loudly and enunciate, that would be very good. We also have with us, from the Department of Industry, Corinne Charette, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Spectrum, Information Technologies, and Telecommunications Sector.
Welcome, ladies. We are going to give each of you seven minutes for your remarks.
We'll start with you, Sandra.