Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My thanks to all the interpreters.
There are other offences in the Criminal Code that are already on point to copyright, and I'm wondering why Bill C-8 isn't taking those on board rather than having them stuck under this act under which, I'm concerned, some of the offences are rather vague regarding permission to wiretap.
Section 408 of the Criminal Code makes it an offence to forge trademarks or trade descriptions, and section 432 of the Criminal Code speaks to the issue of videotaping in a movie theatre without permission what is on the screen, which is, in other words, pirating films.
Those are sections of the Criminal Code which I think could have been more appropriately used under Bill C-8. From our reading of Bill C-8 and the insertion into the Criminal Code of offences under Bill C-8, we have now an overly broad and ill-defined set of offences that are not inherently criminal, although there are criminal activities under trademark already covered in the Criminal Code, and they would insert lesser crimes into a series of wiretapping capabilities where they don't properly belong.
I think that covers my point, Mr. Chair. Thanks for the latitude so I could speak while breathing.