Thank you very much, Mr. Garneau.
The coalition's position is the same as the one you just articulated. We support protection for digital locks and we support prohibiting breaking the digital locks for an infringing purpose. But we also believe that digital locks should not prevent consumers from making legitimate uses of content they have legitimately acquired. Our preference would be that the personal use exceptions not be subject to the digital locks.
In an effort to try to find balance, we've modified our position somewhat because the act actually defines two distinct types of digital locks: copy control locks and access control locks. In the general provisions, only circumventing access control locks is prohibited. There is no general prohibition against circumventing a copy control lock. So what we've said is that for the personal use exceptions, which by and large involve copying, it should not be prohibited or it should be permissible to circumvent a copy control lock in order to make your backup copy or to do time shifting, but that perhaps keeping the access lock protection in place would be a middle ground that would give rights holders some more certainty. But in principle, we agree with the position you articulated.