Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for being here.
I want to save these for the minister, but I'm glad, Mr. Connell, you were able to provide number 6, because it's that area of the enabling and the safe harbours section of this legislation that I'm most interested in.
I understand the bill is supposed to of course target those who enable and profit from massive online copyright infringement. I'm not sure it makes clear that this also includes hosting services. I really need to think that we would not want to have that avoided here, since they're meant, obviously, to deal with the wider definition of the enablers of those who may promote infringement.
I don't want to assume the government's intention, but I take it that the legislation's intention is that pirate host facilities, enablers, should also be captured here and then should not be able to make claims of being protected or exempted under the safe harbour provisions of the act. My sense is that this would obviously be very inconsistent with the bill.
Can you assure the committee that the legislation in fact is intended to capture pirate host enablers as well?