First of all, I think Mr. Trudel is making a brilliant defence of a system that is technologically obsolescent and in the process of being replaced, as regularly happens with technology and capitalism. It takes an obsolete system and renders it useless. It renders it hopeless. The situation that is usually engaged in when you have a business model that is failing is to use law, the power of law, to hobble your competitors, and this is what we see is really going on in the most simple and brutal terms. The broadcasting interests in this country want everything to be made to be as regulated as they are, and to make the new world conform to the older one that is passing out of existence.
That, I think, is at the core of the arguments the Internet Society is coming from. We are in a natural and quite normal process of revolutionary change in technologies. To attempt to say, no, this old world of few voices, highly regulated, must be carried on, this closed and subsidized system of creators needs to carry on into the future.... Forgive me, Oorbee Roy, but when you look at her, you see that she's the future. She's what's happening. She's doing it on her own, and she's doing it without subsidy, without regulation, without licensing, without permission from anybody. She's just doing it. This is a frightening spectacle for a lot of people in the Canadian broadcasting industry who read the writing on the wall and say that it's time for government to come and save us.