Bill C-11 committee  With apologies—the translation went out there—who was the client behind...?

Bill C-11 committee  Oh. I'd have to look.

Bill C-11 committee  In fact, if—

Bill C-11 committee  —a communications medium, a sharing and collaboration medium. That means the more people to share with, the better off it is.

Bill C-11 committee  I think one of the marvels of the Internet is that you become locationless. You'd be amazed at the small towns that huge hosting companies grow out of. In fact, most often they are not located in larger urban centres, because their customers are all over the world and their cost

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.

Bill C-11 committee  There are two things there. One is that notice and notice refines the responsibility appropriately. No service provider wants bad guys on their network. The interesting thing is that so often there are innocent transgressions that notice and notice solves without the classic “r

Bill C-11 committee  Most importantly, you have a growing, thriving industry of small service providers. They're not asking for incentives. They're not asking for financial support. They're simply asking to be allowed to grow and to take advantage of what they can do without having inbound disruption

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  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.