Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Again, sorry, but I have to come back to Mr. Garneau using the words “completely disconnected with any sense of reality” to refer to my reading from Hansard, the official record of the House of Commons. I find that just astonishing.
We have the official record of the House of Commons, where again we voted on this statement:
That the Committee recommends that the government amend part VIII of the Copyright Act so that the definition of “audio recording medium” extends to devices with internal memory, so that the levy on copying music will apply to digital music recorders as well.
That was a statement on which we voted on April 13, 2010, and when we had that vote, members of Parliament voted, and every single New Democratic member, every single Bloc member, and every single Liberal member, including Mr. McTeague and Mr. Garneau, were recorded on the official record of the House of Commons, Hansard, as voting yes to that motion. Every single Conservative member voted no to that motion. It's very clear. It's the official record of the House of Commons.
You know, if we're going to talk about being completely disconnected from reality.... I'm just trying to make a connection to the official record, and the official record says that all three opposition parties are in favour of the iPod tax; it's very clear.
So as we work our way through this legislation, the way to change that reality is to pass a copyright bill quickly, a copyright bill that does not include an iPod tax. That's the way to disconnect from the reality of the way they voted in the past. When Mr. Angus' bill comes up, which is a bill to introduce such a tax, they will have the opportunity at that point to again prove that they're not in favour of it by voting that way. We'll see what happens at that point.