Canadian Heritage committee  The two most important things to ensure that the bill is perfect, as you say, are to include social media, as much as possible, since they are broadcasters like any other, and to ensure that we do not extend an existing exception in the act, especially since we are talking about one act by referring to another act, namely the Copyright Act.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's very simple. When the intent is clear, everybody agrees on how the market should act and how parties should behave; therefore, make it clear in the act. Make no mistake about it: Any overreaching interpretation of a new thing that is added to an act will serve as a tool or a weapon for anyone who is against it.

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Champoux, thank you for giving us the opportunity to answer your questions and take part in the discussion. SOCAN thanks you for inviting us. They are very important for our creators, precisely because the barrier of darkness is always found in the reality of negotiations with social media and digital service providers.

Canadian Heritage committee  When you see the time it usually takes to introduce a new act or a new law that is favourable to most of the people who are around the table right now, I would agree with my colleagues that we want this bill to go forward. We support it. There may be some amendments that could be brought to it, but the urgency is there.

Canadian Heritage committee  SOCAN deals primarily with copyright issues as well, so we pay particular attention to any modification to the Copyright Act that would affect the rights of our members or play a disruptive role in our negotiations with users. Therefore, the proposed amendments that Bill C-10 introduces into the Copyright Act in respect of ephemeral recordings, which would add online undertakings to this exception, are simply unacceptable and go contrary to the intent of this bill.