The difficulty you have is that all of the bills are trying to slice this in a slightly different way, but they're complementary, I think.

In relation to the one that we're presently speaking about, from a consumer point of view I think it's going to look ridiculous if our average consumer can't go into an independent repair shop to fix their car and instead be told that no, you have to go to Chrysler to do that. That's nonsense and that has to be fixed.

To hear that homegrown editions, such as a manufacturer like Honey Bee, can't operate in Canada and are disadvantaged vis-à-vis the United States because John Deere operates there is also nonsense. That has to be fixed.

The other bill, Bill C-244, which I believe we testified on as well, is taking a bigger scope to try to aim at a general right to repair. I agree that it would be much better done inside a review of the Copyright Act in a holistic manner so that concerns from specialty IP lawyers and trade people could be addressed, but you're trying to do it through Parliament.

I think the bottom line, though, is that you're trying to say that the consumer and small business dissatisfaction with the copyright balance that was struck is strong. The only thing I would add to the mix, which I was trying to say today, is there's a whole consumer protection aspect here that's not being brought into the conversation. It's done in other countries through things like consumer protection codes at a federal level, and we just don't have that in Canada. The best place I can think to put it is in the Competition Act. I don't want to use all of your time, Mr. Masse, but I hope that answers in part your question.

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