--so I'm very interested in this.
I do receive money, not much, maybe about twelve bucks every three years, for an article I wrote when I was much younger. It's in a textbook. I appreciate that $12. At the same time, I ran a magazine for 12 years and we published a lot of stuff online for free. A lot of schools used it. It was a business model that we were trying to build. So I know both sides.
I saw an amazing article in my local paper the other day by a Cree journalist who had discovered books that had been lost and were basically out of print, books in which early missionaries were writing about the Cree language. Now they're on Google Books. He was totally excited.
I'm interested in the possibility of where we can go with digital culture. I represent a riding where I have many, many isolated communities where people use long-distance education, so I'd like to start off by trying to get a sense of this.
Under the Conservative plan for long-distance education in the last bill, the schools would be under an obligation to destroy the lessons 30 days after marks have gone out. They would have to make all reasonable efforts to basically prevent students from keeping copies of the lessons. Is that fair?