Thank you, Chair.
Thanks to all the witnesses for your time and for sharing your experience today.
It's clear that we have two perspectives from the panellists today. Our job is to understand those two perspectives and try to navigate down the middle there and try to make sure that everybody's position is covered.
I want to start by saying that the author of the legislation and the previous author of the previous legislation are both really clear that this is legislation that is founded on the right to repair, not the right to modify and not the right to harvest data. It's really about repair. It's about really respecting, in a technological context, the evolution of your industries, the parties to CASIS, in a way that I think they've been left behind by CASIS right now.
On the concern about modification, obviously we don't want want to.... You painted some dire pictures there, Mr. Schmeiser, but where is that coming from? I have to say that it seems a little overstated, given what's actually in the bill. This is really about the right to repair. What is causing your concern that there might be these modifications from these honourable parties to CASIS?