Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want thank all of our witnesses for being here today. It's a fascinating subject, and I appreciate you all sharing your points of view. I would like to start first with Mr. Tacit. In your opening statement, you talked about vertical integration. There a

Industry committee  So the ones that have plays in both media creation, distribution, and content—

Industry committee  Now you said there are a few different options. If such a program were to be put in place, such as FairPlay has suggested, there would be costs. You said that the state could possibly pay for it, which means the Canadian taxpayer or a certain subset. Again, there's some proport

Industry committee  Especially in rural areas, where there's a smaller network—

Industry committee  —or a very expensive network to service.

Industry committee  Then, of course, the other alternative is to have the media companies that are asking for these takedowns to happen to do it, and then it would be all on their customers. Is that correct?

Industry committee  Inevitably, if we go down this path, there will be increased costs to consumers or to Canadian citizens, or some subset of either.

Industry committee  Now in regard to some of these automatic tools, my colleague Mr. Lloyd had mentioned that new technology comes across.... I know a lot of younger people, and probably some older people, play video games that have music in the background. They generate their own content to share

Industry committee  You mentioned earlier that if we were to put in place that kind of system, ultimately ISPs would have to look at things in terms of their economic interest rather than other values. Can you give an example where an ISP might have to make that decision? Again, we're asking to ba

Industry committee  Thank you. I'm going to be sharing my time, hopefully, with Mr. Lloyd. I'm going to follow up from my colleague Mr. Baylis. Mr. Paris, in regard to this subject, obviously, some films that were filmed close to 100 years ago are sometimes remastered and now are available, refor

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for all of the testimony here today. One of the concerns I do have...and there are a lot. There are concerns that musicians aren't able to provide for their families and to have their rights respected. That's an important thing. I'm also quite wo

Industry committee  I'd like to believe that legislators always do the right thing and vote the right way. There is a balance though between trying to establish and continue the rights of the creators with the rights of everyday citizens. Who judges? The thing is, with Google and these automatic fil

Industry committee  I would say the two models are very different. One is set up to serve the Internet in a different way, and the other one is meant to serve people who like that kind of music. I'm going to hand it off to Mr. Lloyd for the remaining time.

Industry committee  I'd like to thank all of our witnesses for taking the time to lend us their expertise here today. I'd like to start with Ms. Dorval. Ms. Dorval, you mentioned that many radio stations offer a lot of local content, particularly news, and I just want to reiterate how important th