As I have been listening today, I have been trying to frame what I'm hearing within the context of our reality. A couple of things have stuck out.
One is that the void left by the lack of interoperability is filled with anti-competitive behaviour and planned obsolescence, because the people who live in that void have the ability to decide how everything goes after that. They hold a very strong position.
From a business perspective, for our industry and all industry in Canada, when we look at the copyright law and how it's impacting our ability to build farm equipment, it seems just weird at the outset. We're really concerned about this and we're not taking the legal and financial risk of making innovations commercially available, because we risk Nintendo versus King types of fines—$12-million fines. King was a little guy with a little thing. Relative to him, we're big guys with big things, so that's concerning.
With regard to the language that needs to be used and using plain language or legal language, industry is asking for clear language so that we have a clear understanding of where we stand with respect to these laws and so that we can also pursue provincial laws that are in support of our industries once we know where we stand federally. Today we don't know where we stand federally, given the lack of clarifying language. The bill presents this clarifying language to a point that we're very comfortable with, which would leave us to pursue our innovations and other opportunities. That would be the incentive.