Sure. From its inception, from the launch of dial-up, the Internet has really been a local business. It has been millions and millions of local businesses. In the early days, every single city in Canada had local ISPs as the first- or second- or third-biggest provider. It was only with broadband and big infrastructure that this changed. In web hosting, it is a local business. In web design, it's a local business.
What happens on occasion is that you have what I would call chilling effects. If the provisions are too broad, then they will be used, and they will be used to intimidate and to discourage. It's the smaller folks on the supply side who get hurt most by that.
We're dealing on behalf of our customers all the time—and when I say “all the time”, I mean weekly—with what is just a lament: “I don't know what to do. I've had this threat brought to me. I've had this demand brought to me.” It's equal parts, by the way: a legal practice that's unsophisticated about Internet matters, just as a lot of us are, and an overreaching. You get equal parts of both, but the outcome is the same.
Again, that's why I like that phrase “sharp knives”, because what you provide in the legislation.... As Mr. Angus said, we all want the bad guys stopped, and service providers probably work harder at that than anybody else in the Internet community, but boy, those sharp knives fall hardest on the smallest.