Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Well, the principles that explain why it wouldn't be a good idea are very similar with respect to digital devices: you're putting an arbitrary fee on top of a general purpose technology or a general purpose service that Canadians use for all sorts of purposes. It effectively puni

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  TELUS does have some recommendations, but they're relatively minor. They're focused on making the notice and notice system work better, more efficiently, and more fairly for all the stakeholders involved. As I have also indicated, we recognize the concerns on the part of some rig

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Well, when I say that notice and notice is enough, to put it that way, it's in the context of the other measures in the bill. If you were focusing on notices sent to consumers as the sole means to control online piracy, that might be a problem. But what the bill does is it create

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Well, again, we haven't defined what we're talking about, but other measures that have been proposed include notice and takedown with respect to hosted content, or notice and termination, or graduated response with respect to individuals who are alleged to have file shared, and a

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Yes, that is something that at TELUS we have a view on. I'm going to speak to three major problems with extending the private copying levy to devices, and I'll characterize them as double charging, the smartphone problem, and the fact that it sounds like giving up on fighting pir

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Well, first, on the point of notice and notice, I want to say that TELUS does forward close to 100% of the notices we receive. It's only in cases where we can't match up an address.... You implied that we were maybe not doing what we need to do, but we are doing it. The constrai

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Right. Perhaps you'll understand that the constraints of our privacy obligations to our customers are such that if we don't have a business reason to retain data, then we don't. Sorry, could you refresh my memory of your second question?

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Right. The quick answer is that we don't use DPI.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  The subject of blocking websites is a very difficult one. I note that in the United Kingdom, where they're just developing their Digital Economy Act strategy to deal with piracy, the first stage is to adopt notice and notice, and they're still mired in the details of how to actua

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  In a number of issue areas regarding Internet content, law enforcement is already actively engaged in pursuing the people who make the content available. I understand that in those areas the content is moved around rapidly. For people who are sophisticated and have the intent to

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  I expect there may be, but I'm not prepared to speak to them. Those would be freedom of expression issues, and those are broader societal issues.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  For TELUS' part, my answer is a very short one. We don't actually have that data. We only forward the notices. We don't retain any further data about how many messages were sent to a certain customer in a certain period, because we have no business reason to retain that data. We

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  That's the only evidence I have.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  At TELUS we don't know that.

Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, committee members. My name is Craig McTaggart and I am director of broadband policy at TELUS Communications Company. Thank you for the opportunity to present TELUS’ views on BillC-32. TELUS considers Bill C-32 to be a strong and balanced a