Industry committee  Just let me finish. If it can be proven that the content that's being disseminated on the Internet is illegal—i.e., stolen—I don't think it's unreasonable for a content provider, regardless of whether they are vertically integrated or not.... Quite frankly, this has nothing to d

Industry committee  We have certainly been to court trying to get injunctions against those who sell the set-top boxes that disseminate this content. My colleague may want to speak to how long and torturous that process is. Even when you can actually find a defendant in Canada and get proof that th

Industry committee  There are a variety of regimes around the world. As Mark mentioned, I think there are 42 countries that have site blocking regimes of one form or another. Many of them do involve a court order; others are administrative regimes. What we're proposing is an administrative regim

Industry committee  Yes, for Bell.

Industry committee  The FairPlay website...?

Industry committee  There are existing legal remedies to combat piracy through potentially getting a blocking order from a court. We've found through experience that those are ineffective. Some of the reasons why they're ineffective are, generally speaking, that piracy operators operate anonymousl

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and honourable committee members. My name is Robert Malcolmson, senior vice-president of regulatory affairs at BCE. With me today is my colleague Mark Graham, senior counsel, legal and regulatory at BCE. We appreciate your invitation to provide Bell's vi

International Trade committee  The sales tax will not directly contribute to Canadian content. However, the sales tax will enable a service like CraveTV—which is a disseminator of Canadian content and is owned and operated by a Canadian company—a service like that, which plays an important role in the content

International Trade committee  I'll tackle one specific issue first that you should think about. As the dissemination of content moves online—as you say, we're moving out of the traditional ecosystem—we've launched an online product called CraveTV, which is our answer to Netflix. It's been very successful in

International Trade committee  I guess we worry about NAFTA resulting in subsidized access by non-Canadian entities to the networks that Bell and Rogers and Telus have built in Canada. Our preoccupation is ensuring there isn't an unintended consequence here as a result of the renegotiation of NAFTA that result

International Trade committee  We think that notice and notice works, but like any solution it's not necessarily perfect. We will continue to support it, but our view is that if we are really going to tackle piracy, as I said, the most efficient and effective solution is to require ISPs to block egregious pira

International Trade committee  Why don't I start, and Pam will no doubt add? From our perspective, it's extremely important. The cultural exemption has served our broadcasting system very well. We have a Canadian broadcasting ecosystem that some in other countries would marvel at in terms of its ability to cr

International Trade committee  The reason we brought it up in the context of NAFTA is that this is actually an issue where Canadian interests and U.S. interests can be somewhat aligned. By that I mean, you've seen the submissions from some of the U.S. broadcast groups, such as the National Association of Broad

International Trade committee  Dealing with the second part of your question first, on how we improve attempts to circumvent digital locks, I think that can be a bit of a rabbit hole in the sense that as soon as you come up with one technological improvement, another way to circumvent arises. From our perspe

International Trade committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and honourable members of the committee. My name is Robert Malcolmson. I'm senior vice-president, regulatory affairs, at BCE. Thank you for your invitation to provide Bell's views on NAFTA. Bell is Canada's largest communications company, employing o