Industry committee  You can get it if you go through the full cable service, or whatnot, and Bell has recently just launched an offer where you can get it on their streaming service through CraveTV, but again, at an additional price, and again, at a lower definition than is available in most places.

Industry committee  The question is this: Are we encouraging, by not having.... Is it a market failure, that we are...because we are driving people to seek the content they want in the format they want, but it's not available unless they apply for these other services.

Industry committee  I think the music industry certainly has.... If you look at piracy, that's no longer an issue, because they've easily—

Industry committee  That was a seven-minute one.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Lawford, just to confirm, it does say on page 3 of the brief that you or your organization submitted to the committee that PIAC is “concerned about the affordability of Canadian content”. Specifically, PIAC believes that Canada should—and your first rec

Industry committee  Maybe it wasn't top of mind before, so could you elaborate a little more on that concept, specifically to this recommendation?

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Thank you very much. I just wanted to get that on the record.

Industry committee  I'd like to go to the Business Coalition for Balanced Copyright. Some members have come to this committee and there was a demonstration on the Hill a little while ago about how some of these infringing technologies work, the Kodi boxes. They showed us a box that had links to we

Industry committee  It's a bit of a grey area. Are you talking about a situation where someone is pirating content, such as the latest Game of Thrones, through a Kodi box and isn't actually paying to receive that service by legal means?

Industry committee  I'd like to go back to Mr. Fewer's earlier statement that the best defence against piracy is having a competitive environment where consumers can that with reasonable costs. I didn't paraphrase your statement very well, sir. If you go to the United States, you can get HBO's str

Industry committee  We've heard some suggestions by testimony. I believe the lawyer for Shaw said that some clarification regarding what the Federal Court and its authority is in these kinds of matters would be important. Do you feel that the Federal Court has, right now...? Is it absolutely clear t

Industry committee  Thank you very much. I'm going to go over to Mr. Lawford. Mr. Lawford, you claim in your brief that the cultural industries are thriving. We've heard testimony and seen data that, while overall spending in some sectors is up, creators and artists are suffering. Are you aware o

Industry committee  Your brief specifically referenced something called “second window” rights. Can you elaborate on that concept, please?

Industry committee  Again, I'd like to know a little bit more about the second window, but it may have been another.... When you read these things, they kind of blur together. You also refer to expanding Canadian content rules to online services. We've heard the concern that if we put CanCon rules