Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to enter the debate at this time. If I understand correctly procedurally we are debating Motions Nos. 2 to 8. Is that correct?
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Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to enter the debate at this time. If I understand correctly procedurally we are debating Motions Nos. 2 to 8. Is that correct?
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moved:
That Bill C-46, in clause 10, be amended by replacing lines 37 to 41, on page 5, with the following:
regulations for carrying out the purposes and provision of section 8.
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moved:
That Bill C-46 be amended by deleting clause 9.
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moved:
That Bill C-46, in clause 8, be amended by deleting lines 24 to 28, on page 4.
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Madam Speaker, the amendment that is being proposed in effect deletes the provision of the minister that the Department of Industry deal with copyright. It is really intended to bring that over to another department.
The issue that has just been made by the hon. member opposite is a very accurate statement, that we need to recognize that the whole area of creator's rights and the business of intellectual property ought to be identified. It is not strictly a matter of heritage, history or things of that sort but is rapidly developing and rapidly changing in our economy in Canada today. We need to recognize that in the area of patents and trademarks of those sorts of things are no less the property of people who use their minds and who use their knowledge to develop particular ideas as much as other kinds of property.
We are moving today into a knowledge economy which is not only a business of making things and of moving people. It is a matter of ideas. It is a matter of innovations. It is a matter of applying these in the right way.
It seems to me that there may be some interest here. In other departments, it is with regard to specific content but in terms of the ownership of certain sorts of things we need to recognize that this is included here in the old traditional way of talking about copyright.
We are really talking about much more than the initial intent of copyright. We are talking about intellectual property. The matter should not be taken out of this clause at this time.
Therefore I think the Reform Party would suggest that colleagues not support this amendment.
Air Atlantic November 24th, 1994
Mr. Speaker, I commend the Minister of Industry for his frank and forthright answer. I am very pleased indeed that the minister will take a neutral position.
Does this mean that the creditors will have sole discretion as to their vote on the restructuring proposal without interference by a government official or a representative of the department?
Air Atlantic November 24th, 1994
Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Industry.
Air Atlantic creditors vote on Monday to determine whether they will accept the company's restructuring proposal or be forced into bankruptcy. Apparently most of the creditors are in agreement with the restructuring proposal and have declared so. The sole exception is the Government of Canada that has not given its public indication of its position. Rejection of the restructuring proposal means the bankruptcy of the company.
Will the Minister of Industry today please advise the House and through this House the employees and creditors of the position of the Government of Canada to the restructuring proposal.
Petitions November 17th, 1994
Mr. Speaker, the second petition is signed by 1,146 constituents. Pursuant to Standing Order 36 I present it to the House. It states that your petitioners pray and request that Parliament not amend the human rights code, the Canadian Human Rights Act or the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in any way which would tend to indicate societal approval of same sex relationships or of homosexuality, including amending the human rights code to include in the prohibited grounds of discrimination the undefined phrase sexual orientation.
Petitions November 17th, 1994
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36 I wish to present two petitions.
The first is signed by 665 constituents praying that Parliament ensure that the present provisions of the Criminal Code of Canada prohibiting assisted suicide be enforced vigorously and that Parliament make no changes in the law which would sanction or allow the aiding or abetting of suicide or active or passive euthanasia.
Standing Committee On Industry November 14th, 1994
Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the hon. member who just spoke just exactly what would be the manner in which business could actually get into a true competitive environment without government interference so that we would not have all this subsidization, so that indeed business could compete in its own right and so that it could do the kinds of things that business was intended to do without subsidization and interference by government to give advantage to some business over and against another business.