Thank you, Mr. Chair.
After all I have heard, I would like to put a single question to Mr. Ripley.
I am wondering whether, ultimately, we should not just remove proposed paragraph 9.1(1)(i.1). I am not making that request for the time being. Whether we are talking about Canadian creators of programs or, as Mr. Champoux proposes in his subamendment, about Canadian programs, we see that we don't have a definition for either of those terms. Correct me if I am wrong, Mr. Ripley, but we have no more idea of what a Canadian creator of programs is. As Mr. Champoux said, is it a director, a producer or someone else? I even think you used the term “artists”, Mr. Ripley. In some cases, we may be talking about individuals who create something they post on social networks. Otherwise, we may be talking about a Canadian program. This concerns discoverability.
Is it logical to assume that we could regulate all social media from around the world, those we know of and those we still don't know of? Earlier, I mentioned young people who are using social media we have not even named yet. Others will also be created in the future. Things are changing so fast. Four years ago, no one knew what TikTok was.
By trying to legislate in an area that is unmanageable, simply put, are we stepping into a field we should stay out of ? Am I wrong?
We have no definition of what a Canadian creator of programs is or of what a Canadian program is, and we will vote on an amendment that concerns the discoverability of something we have not defined. I am not even talking about social networks.