Mr. Chair, I am going to answer the question and Mr. Herman can add to my answer if he likes.
This law allows use with no limits or compensation for artists and book publishers. That also means that universities, in particular, could decide to use an entire book by claiming fair dealing based on classroom needs. The fact that no compensation is paid to the authors and publishers results in a loss of income to the publishing industry. That is in fact what we have seen for more than ten years now.
This loss of income impoverishes the publishing industry and the lack of money means a loss of reinvestment in discovering other artists and other publishers. So it truly impoverishes the Canadian publishing industry.