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Industry committee I would just say that what the CRTC has done lately, I think, gives everyone a sense of cautious optimism that the right questions are being asked. My concern is with the influx. Our industry is booming right now. A lot of it is frothy because of a lot of the foreign service wor
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis
Industry committee I'm not sure of the technology. I am aware of it, but I am not sure how easy it is to circumvent the system by using that. I'm just not aware of that.
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis
Industry committee Yes.
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis
Industry committee The Canadian production Letterkenny is pirated. We have productions made in Canada that are—
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis
Industry committee I think Pirate Bay at one time was based in Canada, and they have been a very flexible and very transient group. I think they were based in Vancouver. Other than that, I'm not sure, but they were one of the largest players as well. There's all this discussion of Netflix, and the
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis
Industry committee Canada.
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis
Industry committee When the whole camcording issue—
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis
Industry committee Yes, the camcorder in the theatres. What was one of the largest centres for that? Montreal.
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis
Industry committee No. That has dropped off. There were major quality issues and a whole bunch of other issues.
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis
Industry committee In terms of where it originates from—
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis
Industry committee —no, but as David mentioned, that's why the FairPlay application is there, because there are no borders. This is digital. They can go anywhere, originate anywhere, and broadcast anywhere. In terms of where they're acquiring the pirated materials, I'm not aware of stats for the lo
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis
Industry committee There's no consequence.
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis
Industry committee I used to work at the Ontario Labour Relations Board—again, a quasi-judicial tribunal—the decisions of which would be in effect.... There was the ability for any party to bring a judicial review or application to the courts to review that, but the decision would be in effect. It'
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis
Industry committee The whole industry was lobbying, and I don't know if it was the Senate or Congress, but they didn't get the votes to enact the provisions the current administration wanted to enact.
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis
Industry committee We'll provide more background. We're going to provide a fuller statement to this committee with our submissions. However, here's the problem in all of this. Because it's become so blatant, the need to be underground has been alleviated. No one is taking any enforcement issues se
June 7th, 2018Committee meeting
John Lewis