Evidence of meeting #20 for Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was education.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Ramona Jennex  Chair and Minister of Education for Nova Scotia, Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
Rosalind Penfound  Deputy Minister, Copyright Consortium, Council of Ministers of Education of Canada
Wanda Noel  Legal Counsel, Copyright Consortium, Council of Ministers of Education of Canada
Rory McGreal  Associate Vice-President, Research, Athabasca University
Cathy Moore  National Director, Consumer and Government Relations, Canadian National Institute for the Blind
Karen Coffey  Member, Canadian Association of Disability Service Providers in Post-Secondary Education

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National Director, Consumer and Government Relations, Canadian National Institute for the Blind

Cathy Moore

Or the RIM PlayBook; we haven't seen it yet.

Unfortunately, I have stock in neither.

The Apple tablet comes with an opportunity or an ability to make the print as large as you need it, but also a built-in screen reader. For someone who is not using it for print at all but is using it for the audio, they're able to access the material on that tablet.

Generally speaking, it's there, mainstream; there's nothing special, there's nothing extra, there's no exemption.

So the context of proposed section 32 is that at this point this is an iterative step, but it's not the ideal, and it's certainly, we hope, eventually not the.... We don't stop there.

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Conservative

Peter Braid Conservative Kitchener—Waterloo, ON

Great.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Gord Brown

Thank you very much.

I'd like to thank our witnesses for being with us today. I think your presentations were excellent. I know the committee appreciated it.

If in fact this is the last meeting of our committee, I want to thank the committee members for all of their hard work. It's been a pleasure acting as your chair. I think we've had some good meetings.

And if in fact it is the end of this Parliament and there is a future bill on this topic, then hopefully the testimony that this committee has received will be received by a future committee.

Thank you to all committee members.

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An hon. member

Thank you, Chair.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Gord Brown

The meeting is adjourned.