Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  And they do. You are preaching to the converted, certainly, when you're talking to me about where we would be without culture. I've devoted much of my life to defending Canadian culture and Canadian sovereignty, and it's critical for me. Our members are taking important steps.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  And I would cast the net very broadly. It's not--

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Worth something to the individual? But that's one of the reasons, when we're talking about technological protection measures, digital locks, that we think it's important that there be protection there that ensures there's a range of options and business plans that people have tha

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I'm certainly not saying that it's no longer worth anything. Far from it, and the reason why we support copyright legislation is that we believe that intellectual property does have worth. The question is, how do you construct a regime to protect intellectual property that's mode

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  It sure is. And we've been waiting a long time. It goes back to my day when we were talking about this. The technology has changed dramatically since the time when I was Minister of Communications. Various ministers have attempted to modernize our intellectual property regime. It

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I'll turn to Lee on this again, but it's very difficult to put that sort of a figure on lost revenues. You simply don't know exactly what has taken place and what people's behaviour would have been otherwise. All we know is that it's substantial, and to a degree it's correctable,

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Absolutely. What we certainly hear from our members is that copyright protection is critical for them in looking at investments they make in Canada. Do we have a regime that's attractive here or not? If I can talk personally just for a minute, my family was a manufacturing comp

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes, we are. In our network we have 192,000 businesses. The vast majority of them are small and medium-sized businesses, and both larger businesses and smaller ones will benefit from this legislation. Just going back to your question, the only pitch that I would make is, yes, we

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thanks, Mr. Angus. I'm not a lawyer, and I'll spare you my legal opinion. As a result, I'll turn to Mr. Webster. The only thing I will say, based on your previous question and notwithstanding the fact that I was here a long time ago, is that Queen Anne had actually passed along

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, Ms. Lavallée. Let me simply set a context for you. First of all, I can hear the passion in your voice when you talk about artists. It's a passion I share as the former Minister of Communications for Canada responsible for Canadian culture and as former president of t

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  It's a question of balance. We understand that mashups should be allowed to an extent, but we don't want to have something so broad that it allows somebody to do essentially anything that the original creator could have done with the product. It's a matter of striking a balance.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  We see them as valuable tools to enable people to enforce their rights. Let me turn to Lee to elaborate on that.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Small and medium-size businesses know that as well.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Garneau, thank you for the question. We have concerns about opening up the capacity to break digital locks. It could limit the options open for various business models and the range of opportunities that consumers may have. There are a number of bu

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I'm delighted to be here, and I'm very pleased to have with me Mr. Lee Webster, who's a partner with Osler's, and who's also the chair of the Canadian chamber's intellectual property committee and a member of the Canadian Intellectual Property