Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank both of you for very clear and interesting presentations.
Mr. McKie, you are in the creative space. We certainly agree that creators have to be protected. In the digital world, it is creators who are at the root of the organization's profit. No creators, no creation; no creation, no distribution; no distribution, no market; no market, no profit. So, the creator is definitely the most important part of the process. One might even say that the creator is the goose with the golden egg.
We have seen-—and all the groups which testified before you have said so--that the more there is concentration of the digital market at the international level, the less money the creators make. We saw that the new digital platforms, like MP3s, are not monitored and that people use them to make copies without having to pay anything. That is why my colleague, Mrs. Lavallée, who is a regular member of this committee, tabled here and then in the House a proposal to ensure that a fee would have to be paid when people purchase audio devices like MP3s that have an internal memory. This proposal has been tabled and debated in the House.
What do you think of this option, Mr. McKie, which would allow us to collect funds for the creators?