Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Allow me to congratulate you once again for the few months you have been chairing this committee. It's a pleasure to work with you.
Good afternoon and thank you for being with us.
Indeed, this whole issue dragged on in the last Parliament. The presentation you've made before us is still very enlightening, even though we dealt with this issue for a long time. Some details that we haven't paid attention to are thus resurfacing.
On December 20, 1996, Canada signed two copyright treaties in order to comply with the requirements of the World Intellectual Property Organization. That was 10 years ago, and we are far from having achieved our objectives.
I'm asking the following question so that all members of the committee can be aware of this. Who is most penalized by the fact that we are not respecting the objectives of the WIPO?