Mr. Chair, I'm going to go back to a point I previously raised. This time I'm going to ask Mr. Ripley.
I am still at a bit of a loss here to understand why, if we were to exclude various online undertakings, we would say that they could be excluded if they fall below either x number of subscribers or x amount of revenues per year, thus leaving an online undertaking that could earn $2 billion excluded because there were fewer than 500,000 subscribers.
While I did listen to Mr. Rayes and his mathematical skills, I could simply see that you could charge a lot of money, for example, for a certain service and you could be up at a threshold. If you're charging $250 a year and you have 490,000 subscribers, you could be earning $2 billion a year from Canadians, yet be excluded.
I would like to ask Mr. Ripley this: If the department was considering at any time such a limitation—meaning that smaller online undertakings would be excluded from the application of the act—what formulation would the department suggest the committee consider in the event we are going to go in that direction? Should it be the way it is formulated here or should it be that you would have to be both below one and below the other to be excluded?