Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My first question is for Mr. Geist. I know you were present at the first committee meeting we had on this, so you heard this. There were a couple of concerns brought up by members of the committee, and I'll quote them:
The net being cast so broadly has also left certain definitions so general that the interpretation of something as simple as a computer program can be taken in a number of ways.
That was one quote. Another member said:
That is my concern with this legislation. It's the fact that it has a very wide net that impedes business from taking place.
We're in a world where we have technology changing very rapidly, and I would think it would be a concern when you're putting forward this kind of legislation that technology could change so rapidly, you'd have to be introducing new legislation every year if you don't have that wider net.
Maybe you could comment on the need to have that little bit wider net when you're dealing with this particular type of legislation.