I basically support that. I flagged in my opening remarks specific information with respect to the exception around artificial intelligence or machine learning, just because it's not clear in the current act if that's permitted.
A number of companies and the Canadian government itself have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into basically developing that area and making sure that we as Canadians have a substantial competitive advantage in that area. To basically maintain that against the extent that it's potentially hampered by copyright is something that I think the committee needs to look at.
I think one of the biggest challenges that you have as a committee—and this touches on a lot of the issues that Jeff was talking about—is that I don't necessarily see copyright as the primary vehicle to resolve these. It's actually a bit of a cumbersome tool that allows you.... The discussions are about taking away intermediary liability or not, and there are profound consequences by actually engaging in those.
A lot of the discussion is about how we don't actually have accurate information with respect to the rights holders. How can we administer that? How are we actually setting the royalty rates, and how are people being paid? How are the platforms engaging in this process?
In my own view, it's actually an issue better addressed through collaborative and co-operative approaches, with the various stakeholders sitting at a table and working through it, often facilitated by the government. It's not something that a legislative response is necessarily going to assist without invoking tremendous unintended consequences and causing tremendous collateral damage.