Canadian Heritage committee  I'm in. No, I'm very embarrassed, as a Canadian; I go to France every six months, to Cannes, and I speak okay French, but I really am embarrassed that I don't speak better French. At any rate, to go back to your question about being a legislator, that's a very difficult question.

Canadian Heritage committee  A lot of technology companies locate in Toronto now.

Canadian Heritage committee  Just because we have a really great education system. I live and work in America. I will tell you right now that it's shocking how little they know about the rest of the world. Part of my job is when.... As I say, I start out by saying, “I'm Canadian. I understand what's going on in the rest of the world.

Canadian Heritage committee  I love Canada. I'm here all the time. My wife lives here. I think someone said it before: it's a question of scale. If I'm located in New York, people want to work with me, the old-school guys. The young guys, they don't care. I could be in the middle of Minnesota, I could be in Toronto, I could be in Fergus.

Canadian Heritage committee  With the Bell takeover of CTV and stuff, there's consolidation happening. I have friends who are cutting the cord and saying they don't have TV at home anymore. But I'm like, “But you still have Bell Internet, right? So you're still paying the same guy.” I'm not against an ISP adding something to the bill.

Canadian Heritage committee  These are the people I deal with on a regular basis. Then I have to deal with old-school people who run TV networks and are used to coming in and sitting in their offices and getting their e-mails printed off and reading them. It doesn't mean they're any worse. Everyone thinks that youth is the answer.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think we have some really good training. It's just about understanding how this works and what it can do for you.

Canadian Heritage committee  You can get it back if you had it verified.

Canadian Heritage committee  As “justinp”?

Canadian Heritage committee  It's not a tax.... You know, with licensing, I think there's something interesting there. Back in the day, and being old enough to know about cassettes when they put the levy on cassettes, it would be interesting to find out the research on that and how that really helped and where the money really went.

Canadian Heritage committee  You guys are all local, right? You're all members of Parliament. How do you do it? Seriously.

Canadian Heritage committee  I have this discussion all the time. It's difficult, right, because it's not a discussion, it's a change. It's happening. If you look at Craigslist, that's local, hyperlocal. We spend all our time talking about hyperlocal. People don't like to see change. They don't like change.

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, it's platform agnosticism. Being platform agnostic is key. Yes, to create some sort of funding model that will be able to do that is important, and I'm not sure how you do that. One of the reasons I left was the number of hoops you have to jump through to get the funding, the fact that it has to have a Canadian flag in it.

Canadian Heritage committee  Oh my God, no.

Canadian Heritage committee  No. It's just the craziest idea I've ever heard. Because do you know what happens? I mean.... It's like no one reads history. Before there was digital media, before there was analog media, there were castles in England. You block people and they'll find a way around it. The reason why Canada's number four in the world for BitTorrent downloads is that we want to watch American programming.