I'm going to apologize. I'm going to apologize for all the bad things that happened in the last Parliament. They did this; they did that; they did this. I'm sorry for that.
We're here. You've got five people who come from this industry. For 30 years I made my living in this industry. For 10 years I was presenting on that side of the table, looking for amendments and so forth. At no point did anybody I was associated with say we didn't need comprehensive change to the copyright law, and I don't think anybody on this side of the table did either.
We are here to work with you. We are here to make sure that when we walk out of this as a team, we can be proud of the work we've done. It serves Canadians. It serves the industry.
We have an opportunity to do that. If we keep working on the assumption that because they did that, the same thing is going to happen, we're going to be in this situation of you and us. That's not going to serve anybody. It's not going to serve you, it's not going to serve us, and it's certainly not going to serve the people who put us here.
I suggest simply opening it up. Instead of closing it down and saying we'll get rid of whatever we haven't got to, let's just finish it. Let's be able to say we've done the best we can as a group, as a team, and this is what we're with.
That's all I have to say. Thank you.