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44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 8, 2024
The Chair (Mr. Heath MacDonald (Malpeque, Lib.))
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I call the meeting to order. Welcome to meeting 101 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the Standing Orders. Members are attending in person in the room and remotely by using the Zoom application. I would like to make a few comments for the benefit of the witnesses and members. Please wait until I recognize you by name before speaking. To prevent disruptive audio feedback incidents during our meeting, we kindly ask that all participants keep their earpieces away from any microphone. Audio feedback incidents can seriously injure interpreters and disrupt our proceedings. I will remind you that all comments should be addressed through the chair. I will also quickly remind you of an informal meeting with the Norwegian delegation at 5:30 today, for those interested. Pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, March 27, 2023, the committee is resuming its study of Bill C-26, an act respecting cybersecurity, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other acts. Today the committee resumes its clause-by-clause consideration, beginning with clause 12. I will now welcome the officials who are with us. They are available to answer questions regarding the bill, but will not deliver any opening statements. From the Department of Industry, we have Andre Arbour, director general, strategy and innovation policy sector; from the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, we welcome Colin MacSween, director general, national cybersecurity directorate, and William Hartley, acting manager; and from the Communications Security Establishment, we have Stephen Bolton, director general, strategic policy, and Richard Larose, senior technical adviser. Thank you for joining us today. With that, we will begin— Yes, Mr. Shipley, please go ahead.
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Mr. Doug Shipley (Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte, CPC)
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Thank you. First of all, welcome back, everyone. It's been a couple of weeks. Hopefully everyone remembers where we left off, because I certainly don't remember exactly where we were. I have a couple of housekeeping items. Could I ask for UC to reopen the items that we need to change, because the legislative drafting folks have informed us that there are a couple of little mistakes?
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