I could add that deputy ministers of education across the country have been worrying about, thinking about, and discussing this issue of copyright for more than ten years now. What we tell our many teachers, professors, and educational administrators, when they come to ask us what they can do and what they can use....
We recognize that there's a void here. I guess the best way I could describe it, although we don't know of recent or any prosecutions against people in the educational sector, would be by way of example. Say there were a political science class occurring somewhere in the country in the next few weeks and perchance an election might be going on. Say one of those professors or teachers were to call to say that they'd really like to use the election as something to study for their class, by comparing what may have been written in the political science texts ten years ago about media and the democratic process, through copying one or two pages from that book for the 18 kids in the class, with what's happening on the Internet, what's being tweeted, what's been in the print media and what is on the television.
They would wonder which of those things are okay for them to do. As deputy ministers of education and ministries of education across the country, we have no clear answer for that. So we think that there's a clear void in the law and that we need very much to have clarity around this and that the proposed bill strikes the right balance and will provide that clarity.
The bottom line is that good public policy is needed.