Absolutely. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I think, ultimately, the objective here is to be as compliant with our international obligations as possible. Ultimately, it is our view that the inclusion of the device, the ability to trade in devices or to provide devices that allow for circumvention is not consistent with our CUSMA obligations.
It's a pretty complicated issue within CUSMA because of the way it's framed across multiple different articles. Ultimately, there are three different types of prohibitions contained in CUSMA. One is a prohibition on access to works protected by TPMs. The second is a prohibition on providing services that are mainly for the purpose of accessing works or circumventing TPMs. The third is to provide devices that allow for the circumvention of TPMs.
One concern that we have is that.... Sorry, I'm just going to take a step back.
There are some specific exclusions that are listed within CUSMA. There's a set of seven of them. Unfortunately, none of those actually address repair. Repair falls under a catch-all provision. That catch-all provision only allows exceptions to circumvention of the first of those three restrictions, which is to access.
The fact that Bill C-244 and, I believe, many of the other motions maintain that device prohibition creates problems for CUSMA compliance.