Yes. I've always taken a crosscutting effects and rights approach to it, not a technological one, so I agree with those who frame it that way. Beware of those who think the answer to technology issues is more technology.
I think the place that is going to be hurt the most by far by AIDA and Bill C-27 is Quebec. They have by far the most to lose, because they've set a higher bar—an appropriate bar—with law 25, yet clearly this law is lower. Which one is in charge? Also, if you notice, it's ambiguous, and you know the federal is going to win, but corporations are going to arbitrage away from Quebec. It's like pollution laws are easier on one side of the river than the other, so you just move across the river. I think you'll lose. If you don't do strong laws, we all lose, but Quebec will lose the most.
Absolutely, social, cultural, economic, security, this is the mediation realm of the contemporary. It's extremely important, and I think the provinces should be given tremendous accord on this, and that should be clarified in this bill. However, your primary protection is raising the standard of this bill so that, as a minimum, it meets law 25.