I agree. We understand exactly where you're coming from on the 30 days.
Yes, you're right, in the first two instances you would have infringed because you took the whole work.
We are not opposed to fair dealing. We already have fair dealing in the act for a number of purposes. All Canadians benefit from it. Publishers benefit from it, and their authors and researchers benefit from it. What we are opposed to is an exception that is ill defined and unstructured, and we want clarity around the exception. We're not saying take it way; we're saying clarify it.
I have given our joint proposed amendment to the clerk. I did that as we came in.
We believe that in looking at the government's backgrounder and comparing it with what the education community says the reality will be, which is not a great increase in free uses, and combining that with clarity should mean that the government meets its objective: that the education community is still well served, even though there is now some further definition around that exception; and that publishing—I'm not going to say it cures everything—at least has a good chance, a fighting chance, to increase the proportion of its works that are original indigenous Canadian works in education, as opposed to more of the U.S. and the U.K. coming into Canada.