At the announcement of the copyright bill, the president of bitHeads said they were losing 90% of their sales to online piracy. Does the opposition not support a law that provides more to creators and goes after the thieves, the online piracy sites?

Mr. Speaker, could the hon. member expand a bit on some of the discussions she had with the stakeholders with respect to online piracy and how we could do a better job to ensure Canada would no longer be a haven for online pirates?

Let me be clear right off the bat. TELUS recognizes that online piracy is a problem and encourages Parliament to arm rights holders with effective tools to directly pursue those who actively enable it.

economic crimes, unauthorised access and sabotage: offences relating to unauthorised access to systems (e.g. hacking, computer sabotage and distribution of viruses, computer espionage, computer forgery, and computer fraud).

The United States also has a computer reservation system that has now secured new regulations to protect the software from any kind of hacking.

We are working actively to identify and flesh out the possible synergies and partnerships with those in the department and the Canadians Forces who are responsible for a number of the following areas: identifying and understanding vulnerabilities associated with critical physical assets and computer network systems and devices; understanding the threat environment, such as the threats posed by hacking and information warfare to military personnel, operations and facilities; conducting research aimed at dealing more effectively with cyber-security problems; and managing the bilateral military relationship with the United States where h ...[+++]omeland defence, critical infrastructure protection and cyber-security are high national priorities.