First and foremost, I know that it is unusual to have a motion asking that a witness come to testify. I don't intend to make this a habit. Our system is based on suggestions, so it is much more flexible and it should stay that way.
I wanted to introduce this motion because I thought that Gary Fung had been forgotten along the way. Perhaps it would be useful for us to pass a motion to show him that we really want to hear what his position is on Bill C-32. He is leading one of the main activities targeted by Bill C-32 and I would personally like to know if he is in favour of or against the bill.
In the text, I say that Mr. Fung's company is in Vancouver. He owns one of the most popular Internet sites for peer-to-peer file-sharing in Canada. In an article called “The Pirate Bay's Heir Apparent”and published on December 1, 2009 in Forbes, we can read the following: I won't deny that practically everything we index is copyrighted … however, we're merely a search provider for what's available. Everything I say about peer-to-peer file-sharing is merely my opinion. It's not something we enable. We don't enable file-sharing any more than Google enables the Internet.
I would like him to come and explain this passage from Forbes to us.