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House Committee

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 1, 2024
The Chair (Mr. Joël Lightbound (Louis-Hébert, Lib.))
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I want to welcome all of you to meeting number 121 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry and Technology. Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the Standing Orders. I'll recognize you, MP Masse, in due time, but there are some things I need to highlight first. Before we begin, I would like to remind all members and other in-room meeting participants of the following important preventative measures. To prevent disruptive—and potentially harmful—audio feedback incidents that can cause injuries, all participants must keep their earpiece away from their microphone at all times. As indicated in the communiqué from the Speaker to all members on Monday, April 29, the following measures have been taken to help prevent audio feedback incidents. All earpieces have been replaced by a model which greatly reduces the probability of audio feedback. The new earpieces are black in colour, whereas the former earpieces were grey. Please only use the approved black earpieces. By default, all unused earpieces will be unplugged at the start of a meeting. When you are not using your earpiece, please place it face down on the middle of the sticker on the table for this purpose, as shown on the image. Please consult the cards on the table for guidelines to prevent audio feedback incidents. The room layout has also been adjusted to reduce acoustic shock. Keep that in mind, colleagues. It's very important. I'll be monitoring this more closely than ever, given what happened. To make it simple, you need to keep your earpiece as far away as possible from the microphone, when your microphone is on, or away from that of your neighbours. Any microphone that's on, you need to keep the earpiece as far away as possible. Pursuant to the order of reference on Monday, April 24, 2023, the committee is resuming consideration of Bill C‑27, An Act to Enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act, the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act and the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts. With that, I’d like to welcome back our witnesses and thank you all for being here this evening. We welcome Mr. Mark Schaan, senior assistant deputy minister, strategy and innovation policy sector; Mr. Samir Chhabra, director general, marketplace framework policy branch; as well as Ms. Runa Angus, senior director, strategy and innovation policy sector. At the last meeting on Bill C‑27, we ended with the representative for the Bloc Québécois. Before giving him the floor, allow me to give the floor to another member. I'd like to recognize MP Masse, who had a point of order. MP Masse, the floor is yours.
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Mr. Brian Masse (Windsor West, NDP)
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. My comment is with regard to the new room layout, which I do support. Obviously, this has been an audio challenge for our interpreters during this process, but I want to point out two things that are of a concern. The door is right behind me right now, so that is going to be picked up on my microphone, and it's going to be hard for me to hear. Second to that, which is most important, and which is not an issue today, I'm not afforded a spot for my staff, which is different from the accommodations made for every other party here. There has to be some accommodation for my staff either to be at the table here or to be in some other configuration. That is a point of privilege that I will raise. I will have a staff on a regular basis. I don't for today, so it has no bearing, but it is something I want to raise now. I do appreciate what we're trying to do here because it is significant for our interpretation staff. Again, the noise is pretty bad in some of these halls, so I'm worried it might get picked up as well. Those were the two points I wanted to make as we go through this process.
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