Welcome to our witnesses. It's been a good discussion here this morning. However, there were a couple of comments made that I would like to drill into a bit deeper.
Mr. Geist, I don't think any of us, outside of you perhaps, are experts on intellectual property rights, and we're not trying to pretend to be. But certainly the world is changing and technology is changing, and I think we've got a bit of a double-edged sword with technology.
You made a comment, your last comment, actually, that the agreements and negotiations that took place in the 1990s should be maintained. That's better than a decade ago. Technology changes so rapidly that I don't know how we can maintain those agreements.
I'm not saying the European copyright laws don't go too far, so don't get me wrong. I do think we need a made-in-Canada solution, and I think that's what we're trying to do with Bill C-32.
But the difficulty of that—and I do have some faith in our trade negotiators who liaise with industry, and our WTO partners around the world who try to figure out exactly where we're headed in the future—is that with this one, I think the moment you think you have a grasp on it, it's gone.
I want you to comment on the whole concept of changing technology and how we could ever possibly keep up to it.