Canadian Heritage committee  I would like to spend a few seconds on the enabling provision. To my knowledge, and I will look at my colleague, Canada is the only one and the first one that has introduced such a mechanism in its act. The purpose was to target those whose business model is to facilitate copyrig

Canadian Heritage committee  Okay. I'll try. The whole issue of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expression is one of particular interest and challenge, for many reasons that I alluded to in my opening remarks, because some of the fundamental characteristics associated with TK, traditional kno

Canadian Heritage committee  Well, there's a whole list. Again with all the necessary caveats, you will have creators asking for a longer term of protection, for example. As Mark explained, in Canada it's the life of the author plus 50. In our discussions with creators, you will often hear from certain crea

Canadian Heritage committee  We have also had a lot of people come to discuss this issue with us. Allow me to go back a few years to help out your colleagues. In 2012, the government added a certain number of categories for fair dealing, including education. It's also worth remembering that the current prob