Thank you very much for being here this morning and for giving your testimony.
I'd like to start off by focusing on TPMs or digital locks and the issue of the bill as it currently exists, which of course says very clearly that if you circumvent an existing digital lock you are breaking the law. The Liberal Party is very clear on its position that it agrees that if you are circumventing a product with a digital lock for commercial purposes—pirating or what have you—that is breaking the law, and we are against breaking the law. However, we do have a different position with respect to people buying a product and format shifting, copying, transferring it to another personal device for their personal purposes. We've been clear on this since Bill C-60, one of the predecessors of Bill C-32.
I'd like to start with Mr. Kerr-Wilson on this issue because he referred to it briefly in his opening comments. Would you please—and then, Mr. Beatty—explain your position with respect to the use of a product with a digital lock but in the case where it is strictly for personal purposes?