Dan Albas at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On November 28th, 2018. See this statement in context.

November 28th, 2018 / 4:40 p.m.

Conservative

Dan Albas Conservative Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, BC

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you to all our witnesses for your testimony here today and multiple testimonies at different committees.

I'll start with Mr. Hayes.

You gave in your opening comments the example of SOCAN, where someone is putting on a feature that they calculate to be $1,000 in royalties, SOCAN takes a different position and, therefore, it could be $4,500 if it's three times what it was.

First of all, if collectives are only able to seek actual damages, won't people just automatically refuse to pay tariff as the worst punishment they would face in the first place?

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