The $1.25 million exemption is, as far as we're aware, the only provision in the act that prevents the Copyright Board from doing what they're there to do. When they have looked at it every time in their decisions, they set out separate rates for low-use music stations, for community radio stations, for all-talk radio stations. That's them doing their job. They take into account the size; they do graduated rates according to the size of the radio station. They're the experts on doing that. They listen to all the evidence.
The $1.25 million exemption prevents them from actually doing that. They can't do their job because of that exemption, and it's the only instance where the Copyright Board is not left to do their job.