I'm not a lawyer. I'm not a regulator. I would like to see what kind of laws. We are saying what kind of rules, and how this could be approached.
What we are saying is that if we are not very careful, it's through the back door of foreign trade negotiations that we may throw out the baby with the bathwater. That's where we run the risk.
We sound like we're crying wolf and nothing will happen, but it has happened at least once in the cultural sector, with NAFTA in 1997, with the UPS challenge to Canadian support programs for magazines. Canada has found a way to wriggle out of that and create something else that falls within the parameters.
But this is an illustration. I'm told there have been such challenges by private companies in the environmental sector, for example, which is very important.
In terms of what I'm saying here in terms of being careful about regulations that will affect the cultural sector, it actually affects all sectors of activities. We have to be very careful what we do with our sovereignty as a nation in this field.