Industry committee  The point is that they are located offshore, and to Mr. Lametti's question, that makes it difficult to use traditional judicial remedies to find that defendant and enforce against them on an expedited basis and an effective basis.

Industry committee  It's a good initiative if it makes commercial copyright infringement a priority. That has always been the issue, that copyright infringement is lower down on the enforcement food chain. Given the scale it has grown to and given who's engaged in it, organized crime in some instanc

Industry committee  Sorry, can I add to that, if you don't mind?

Industry committee  You asked what might go too far. Certainly, we're a supporter of getting rid of settlement demands coming to consumers. That's not appropriate. It should be written out of notices. But if you find yourself in a situation where you're sending a notice to someone who is illegally c

Industry committee  That speaks to the questions you've been asking.

Industry committee  The short answer is yes. I think the current provision speaks to copying, and so—

Industry committee  —streaming is arguably not caught.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  I was trying to think of an answer.

Industry committee  I think you've hit the nail on the head. In this day and age, when our regulated, linear ecosystem, which has been around forever, is now being—some would say overtaken—certainly diluted by over-the-top providers, how do we find a way, without unduly constraining the availability

Industry committee  That's certainly a live issue, I know. The government has launched a legislative review of the Telecommunications Act and the Broadcasting Act, and that's actually one of the questions they've asked. They've asked, specifically, how we get non-Canadian online providers to contri

Industry committee  There are many ways to do that. They could, for example, be required to contribute a percentage of their Canadian revenue to Canadian production. If you think about Netflix, I think they have close to seven million subscribers in Canada. They don't pay sales tax in Canada. They d

Industry committee  Would it be wrong to ask them to somehow contribute to our system? That's—

Industry committee  I will start, and others may have comments. I think some consumers have grown up in the age of the Internet where content is widely available for free online, and if they can access it, they don't give a second thought to whether they are accessing something that someone else ow

Industry committee  I don't think in any way, shape or form that would be a violation of net neutrality under a reasonable interpretation of what net neutrality is. As Mr. Watts said—and I think Minister Bains has said it himself—the concept of net neutrality is the free flow of legal content over t