Bill C-11 Committee on March 6th, 2012

Evidence of meeting #8 for Bill C-11 (41st Parliament, 1st Session) in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was copyright.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-11, An Act to amend the Copyright Act

MPs speaking

Pierre Dionne Labelle

Also speaking

Catharine Saxberg Executive Director, Canadian Music Publishers Association

Victoria Shepherd Executive Director, AVLA Audio-Video Licensing Agency Inc.

Mario Chenart President of the Board, Société professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Québec

Jean-Christian Céré General Manager, Société professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Québec

Sundeep Chauhan Legal Counsel, AVLA Audio-Video Licensing Agency Inc.

Gerry McIntyre Executive Director, Canadian Educational Resources Council

Greg Nordal President and Chief Executive Officer, Nelson Education, Canadian Educational Resources Council

Jacqueline Hushion Executive Director, External Relations, Legal and Government Affairs, Canadian Publishers' Council

David Swail President and Chief Executive Officer, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, Canadian Publishers' Council

Mary Hemmings Chair, Copyright Committee, Canadian Association of Law Libraries

Noon

Executive Director, External Relations, Legal and Government Affairs, Canadian Publishers' Council

Jacqueline Hushion

If you believe that the primacy of the marketplace is important to this industry and it needs to be cited, then cite it in the law. We would like to see the government make the legislation. We want—

Noon

Conservative

Mike Lake Conservative Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont, AB

But that's not the way fair dealing works.

Noon

Executive Director, External Relations, Legal and Government Affairs, Canadian Publishers' Council

Jacqueline Hushion

But we don't—

Noon

NDP

The Chair NDP Glenn Thibeault

We're also over time, so please wrap it up.

Noon

Executive Director, External Relations, Legal and Government Affairs, Canadian Publishers' Council

Jacqueline Hushion

We don't want the justice system to have all of that in its hands. We want it in the hands of our legislators.

Noon

NDP

The Chair NDP Glenn Thibeault

Great.

Thank you, Ms. Hushion and Mr. Lake.

I'd like to thank the witnesses for being here today.

Could the committee members give me 30 seconds of their time?

Thank you again for presenting. Your testimony is very important to this committee.

Members of the committee, tomorrow there are votes at 5:30. We had two sets of witnesses, one from 3:30 to 5, and then another from 5 until 6:30. Through the great work of our clerk, we've been able to change that to have the meeting from 3:30 to 5:30 with all four witnesses here at the same time.

Also, just a reminder that the meeting is on Wellington. So when the bells ring at 5:30, we have the half hour to get from Wellington into the House of Commons.

With that, we will adjourn this meeting. Thank you.