There are a couple of things.
Again, we are discussing ideas. I think we need to be looking at this. We're going to be here for four months, and we have a number of things to discuss. I certainly support hearing witnesses. I think it's important. It's business that's unfinished, and we need to finish the business.
I'd like to have a sense of who those witnesses would be so that we have a sense of how long. I don't think we need to spend months. I think maybe it would take three meetings. That's my initial sense.
I'd be wary of meeting about it on Wednesday, because we don't have any witnesses. I'd like to come prepared. I'd like to hear. I would like us to put to the clerk some of the people we think could speak to it, whether that would take two meetings, one meeting, or three meetings, and then we could deal with that and come up with recommendations or be satisfied. I think it would be a way to deal with that.
I would be really against putting time into a legislative study of a dead bill. The copyright legislation died when the election was called. We don't know what changes there will be, so I don't find it would be of much use for us as a committee to address legislation that's no more.
I think there are a number of elements we could be looking at in terms of studies. I'm certainly interested in looking at the monetizing possibilities that are out there and business models that are actually working. Those have nothing to do with legislation per se, but they tie into stuff we've been dealing with in the film study, with CBC, and how people are monetizing back catalogues. There are a lot of elements that keep coming up that we've never had a chance to look at. They're not top-of-mind issues, but if we could spend a number of months on them, in and out of our other issues, they'd be something I would certainly like to have on the agenda.
Mr. Chair, I know you're interested in museums. They're something we can certainly fit in. We don't have to spend every meeting on them, but we can decide on that, whether that would take three or four meetings.
Certainly, I think Madam Lavallée's issue is top of mind because it's unfinished business from the summer. So let's pick some witnesses, and let's talk about the witnesses together. Again, I think we can all agree who should be there and who's necessary, and then we can get the business dealt with.