Mike, if I might, I would just add a little more momentum to that, especially on the education side. I say so because I think I didn't address Marc Garneau's comments. He raised the issue of education and that the Liberals are considering an amendment to this. Obviously, we'll wait to see the language of what's proposed, but we think this strikes an appropriate balance.
I had meetings this past week in my office with book publishers and those who are concerned about what the fair dealing provisions in the legislation might mean for them. Again, I know this is technical and complicated, and that's why copyright and intellectual property law is so difficult, in trying to imagine the unintended consequences going forward. That's why I'll bridge back to what I said in my opening comments about the five-year renewal of this legislation, that we'll learn some things as we go forward. This is not a case of our sitting here in the last week of November 2010 and saying we know for sure what the world will look like. We want to have an ongoing engagement on this.
But on the education provisions you mentioned, Mike, I just want to make sure that the committee knows that the Council of Ministers of Education, the ministers of education from across the country, came together and endorsed this legislation, Bill C-32, because they said this legislation “allows students and educators in elementary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities to have fair and reasonable access to...materials” that they need. And the Canadian Association of Research Libraries said they applaud the government because we have “respond[ed] to the copyright reform concerns expressed by the library and education community”. Students' organizations have also come out in support of this legislation because they think it helps students.
Now again, counterbalancing that with the needs of those who are providing and creating the educational materials is something that we've done our best to do in this legislation, but we think so far it strikes the right chord from what we've heard in our consultations.