I'll go in French, okay?
The private copying regime applies to reproductions that are made by consumers but that we cannot control.
In Canada, the private copying regime was introduced in 1997 and targeted physical media, DVDs and cassettes. Subsequently, some people argued that the private copying regime should be technologically neutral, that is, that it should now apply to copies made using telephones or tablets, but the court decided otherwise. Technological neutrality wasn't introduced into the act when it was modernized in 2012 either. All we are asking is that this regime be technologically neutral, so that it also applies to digital media.
Since the act won't be amended for some time, we ask that a compensation fund be created in the interim.
The private copying regime represented $40 million for rights holders. Today, DVD reproductions are down, so that this scheme now represents about $2 million. It is a place where we could truly compensate the loss of income of the rights holders. Over the past six or seven years, rights holders have lost $38 million a year.