It's a good question, but this is the difference between [Technical difficulty—Editor] the philosophy of manufacturing in general. With this bill, we are simply saying that you have the right. It's no longer against the law to circumvent the TPMs in order to repair or replace or diagnose the situation.
As to what you're talking about and what others have talked about today in terms of that planned obsolescence, these are business decisions. Consumers are also going to look at, “Okay, I can effectively replace the part in my phone or replace the part in this device or that device, but this device has this new innovation and I want that.” That always is a contributing factor in that consumer decision. This isn't going to slow that down at all. Industry is going to continue to innovate and continue to bring out new products with more conveniences.
I personally don't really find that kind of thing [Technical difficulty—Editor]. For example, my lawnmower has literally nothing on it that is a perk, if you will. You almost have to go searching for something like that now, something that's basic that someone like me can repair on their own. There are so many little features that industry is adding to products to make life easier, to add more convenience to this device or that device.
With the whole smart concept, the whole 5G connecting everything, the fact that your toaster is going to be 5G in the future and refrigerators already have that kind of capacity to say when you're out of milk and things like that, we have to recognize that this type of innovation is not going to slow down just simply because somebody has the right to repair their own device.
What we are looking at, really, is for industry to acknowledge that using the Copyright Act is simply not the way to do this. If provinces want industry to be protected in that way, fine. They need to pass a law to say that, and not simply use the Copyright Act as a shield in a way that was never intended.