Madam Speaker, I fail to understand why we, as legislators, are constantly pitting consumers against creators.
As a consumer of music or any other art form, I would like to be able to buy a work and know for sure that the creator who produced it was compensated.
From what I understand of the current bill—and I would like clarification from the hon. member on this—if we pass it in its current form, the coming weeks will have to be spent creating fair trade music and fair trade art, like the fair trade coffee and chocolate we get from developing countries. It does not seem to me that we are going completely in the right direction.