Yes, I will.
Our concern is that it's not just the interference with students. The requirements for educational institutions seem to be overly aggressive. It affects teaching materials such as lesson plans, exams, graphs, images, photos, and quotes. Anything a teacher includes in a lesson could be captured if the authorization for that use is an exception or limitation under the act. It creates impossible practical challenges for teachers, challenges that make it very difficult to make use of the new technologies in the classroom.
We don't think you should have to be an expert on copyright to do your lesson plan. Are teachers supposed to go through their plans and delete these works and not others every year?
We have heard from the Canadian School Boards Association, which clearly expressed the near universal opposition of Canada's provincial education systems to this arbitrary measure and the practical risks they face. A good example of this is if we have a student with perceptual disabilities who's learning online, and the teachers prepare a specific set of lessons for that student. That's an investment that the student in the following years could make use of. Yet under this, those lesson plans would have to be terminated. It seems that we are once again stepping needlessly into the jurisdiction of the classroom.
We believe that we should have a strong system in place so that the creation of the works used in a classroom get remuneration, but simply making them disappear after 30 days is not going to benefit students, teachers, or creators.