I'll start.
Thank you very much for your question. I really appreciate the passion and the energy that you bring to it. I say that in all seriousness.
This is a question of balance and it is a question of transition. This is a time of transition. It started before 2012, and it has accelerated since then. Back in 2011, did we know where we would end up in 2017? Not exactly.
I think one of the challenges that the committee has before it right now—and that we all have before us as a sector where, as you say, we are interconnected with one another—is to try to predict where we need to be in the future and to set up a business model that would allow us all collectively to make the best use of taxpayer dollars. Let's not forget that education is completely taxpayer-funded in Ontario and Canada, so where are we using those resources, and to what end? To what extent should we be paying for resources?
Of course we should be paying for resources. We continue to pay for resources. We talked about that, so I'm not going to reiterate it, but we do continue to pay to clear copyright.
The business models are changing. We needed to change the way we acquired resources. We needed to change toward digital collections. At the same time, Access Copyright probably needed to change its repertoire. It sounds like there's an evolution that's happening there as well. The publishing companies also changed the way that they do business.
We need to continue to evolve together in a way that works for the Canadian taxpayer, for Canadian students, but that also respects the right for fair dealing.