Industry committee  There's arguably never sufficient clarity, especially when it comes to copyright. I think that additional clarity could be useful. Is it absolutely necessary? Perhaps.

Industry committee  Because we're not part of the FairPlay coalition, I don't think that we've really considered the various mechanisms for doing so. We've been speaking with our technical people, and there are various ways that have different pitfalls. Certainly over-blocking is a big concern. Blocking in the right way that actually is of value....

Industry committee  Traffic management practices are generally more commonly applied with respect to peak times and those types of things, as opposed to actually determining what kind of content is there or what kind of packets are being transmitted.

Industry committee  It is. Certainly, I'm not suggesting that traffic management practices won't necessarily look at different types of content, but these are the types of practices that would be applied and reviewed by the CRTC.

Industry committee  First of all, we might not be able to detect the fraudulent notices at all, right? I wouldn't be able to give you a number on whether we are receiving them, but the potential is there. That's our concern, which is why establishing things like the content and the form of the notices is extremely important and may address that.

Industry committee  We heard TekSavvy suggest it when they appeared last week. We're not suggesting that it be a cost recovery mechanism but simply that it add some type of cost. That's unlike the Norwich orders, where you have to do additional work in order to be able to find additional information beyond the notice and notice work that's done.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  No, that's not our suggestion at all. We merely suggest that piracy needs to be addressed in many different fora. The Federal Court is certainly one area; in fact, any court can hear matters of copyright infringement. We believe that they have that ability and they have the expertise.

Industry committee  We believe that the FairPlay application does provide for procedural fairness. That's what's really important. The court order process is simply to ensure that there is procedural fairness. We believe that there is certainly the possibility that you can create an independent agency that would provide that fair process.

Industry committee  Certainly we have expressed significant concerns with various elements of vertical integration, and it's more for another forum and another legislative review that is happening. We believe that the Broadcasting Act does need to be amended in order to be able to address the competitive issues.

Industry committee  It's mostly from a broadcasting perspective. The broadcasting environment is such that we are required to offer the programming services that the vertically integrated companies own. They have every incentive to either foreclose competition by making certain services that are particularly popular unavailable to us—and we've had to fight through that with the CRTC in the past—or to increase their rivals' costs, such that for the wholesale rates that we would pay to offer the same programming services that they offer to their subscribers, we would have to pay more.

Industry committee  Telus is a firm believer in net neutrality. When I say we're a firm believer in net neutrality, I think a principle needs to be applied to some elements in such a way that it makes sense for consumers and for the country as a whole. Some elements—for example, security, privacy of information—are principles that sometimes compete with net neutrality.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Correct.

Industry committee  We're suggesting that transition, because there is the technology now for you to be able to record directly to the network. The technology is there, but the innovation to do so has been very slow to come to market because of the associated risk for the network provider. We're suggesting that if there were changes to the act to make it such that we wouldn't incur additional liability, we would bring that innovation to the market.