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Mr. Jim Abbott (Kootenay—Columbia, Canadian Alliance): Sometimes we're accused of seeing simple answers to complex questions because we don't understand the question. So on that basis, I am at something of a loss to understand why the departments would not have come forward with something far simpler in doing what has been characterized as an Internet carve-out. If I'm going to heat something, I can use a match, a candle, an electric range, or a microwave, and each one of those has its own component. It may arrive at the same destination, but each of those elements has its own characteristics. So we have on-air transmission, we have satellite transmission, we have Internet. I would suggest that Internet, because it knows no boundaries and, technologically, can be hacked at will, as we've seen with mafiaboy and everybody else.... I don't really understand why the government would not have... This goes to the process, because what I'm concerned about is that with this bill, and the fact that a bunch of novices--with all due respect to my colleagues, I will call myself a novice... We have experts in your departments, and the government has come to Parliament with a very complex bill that could be simplified with something like an Internet carve-out. If I understand what is being proposed, it's buffaloed all the bureaucrats and experts, the people who work in your department on this particular issue who have that expertise. Then you come to myself as a novice, along, perhaps, with a few other novices, and say, how would you like to do some regulations? I'm sorry, I don't understand this process at all. Why can't we just have an Internet carve-out?
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