Bill C-11 committee  Thank you. My name is Elliot Noss. I'm the CEO and president of Tucows Inc. I'd like to thank you all for giving me the opportunity to appear here today. I'd like to start by thanking the totality of you. Perhaps it is third time lucky, but it appears that on the third pass w

Bill C-11 committee  It's in the theatres.

Bill C-11 committee  It's important for Canada to respect them, yes, but necessarily to ratify them, not so much. There is a very interesting trend going on, in that when goals can't be achieved in domestic politics, attempts are made to achieve them through international politics. That's very worri

Bill C-11 committee  No, they weren't.

Bill C-11 committee  They were asking about the climate in Canada around some of these issues and were pursuing, on behalf of their clients, locating significant stores of data and moving them—American companies and American clients—to Canada because the climate might be healthier. These were not il

Bill C-11 committee  Bill C-11 feels comfortable to me.

Bill C-11 committee  That's right.

Bill C-11 committee  That's right.

Bill C-11 committee  I will tell you that when I dug into Bill C-11 as it currently stands, I was pleasantly surprised. That would be right way to put it. There is the appropriate expansion of exceptions for fair dealing, as well as the notice and notice provisions and the statutory damages. Three or

Bill C-11 committee  Sure. From its inception, from the launch of dial-up, the Internet has really been a local business. It has been millions and millions of local businesses. In the early days, every single city in Canada had local ISPs as the first- or second- or third-biggest provider. It was onl

Bill C-11 committee  Well, I'll briefly say that small creators who appreciate that sharing is the way to become big creators are the ones who have the best chance of getting there. Small creators who try to restrict sharing of their content tend not to get there.

Bill C-11 committee  I think what we're seeing now is really twofold. We see that innovative creators get themselves out there massively through sharing and we see that now the most innovative models and the ones that are capitalizing most effectively are the ones doing it through concerts and mercha

Bill C-11 committee  I said service providers—

Bill C-11 committee  —because that's a broader category.

Bill C-11 committee  That's right.