Thanks very much.
I want to start with Ms. Lovrics. My washing machine is broken. I've been at the laundromat. I don't mind being at the laundromat, because there is a nostalgia to it. I was at the laundromat on Concession Street in Kingston throughout my studying of politics and law—I studied there for seven years—so I don't mind being at my local laundromat. I see constituents and have wonderful conversations.
However, I'd like to get my washing machine repaired. It's a Whirlpool Duet, I think, and it's many years beyond its warranty. Surely, as a consumer, I shouldn't be restricted to contacting Whirlpool and not having some service repair person who can fix it.
I guess when I'm reading the legislation and it says specifically that a TPM would not.... It says:
Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not apply to a person who circumvents a technological protection measure that controls access to a computer program if the person does so for the sole purpose of diagnosing, maintaining or repairing a product in which the computer program is embedded.
Why in the world would we care about.... Maybe going in the opposite direction, shouldn't we care? Why would we want to prevent a marketplace where individuals would diagnose, maintain or repair their products?