Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands)
2021-04-15 18:46 [p.5716]
Madam Speaker, as some will have noted, although we do not mention our names in this place, the hon. member for Cambridge and I might be mistaken as family members. I would be proud to claim him as a close cousin, because this bill is fantastic.
The right to repair is part of Green Party policy, and there is in fact a movement globally on this. There is a case where Apple, the giant Apple corporation, sued the owner of a little tiny Norwegian repair shop, Henrik Huseby, because he had the gall to think he could repair some of its products. This is important legislation. I hope to support it in seeing it all the way through to report stage and third reading.
Has the hon. member heard of that case? This is a global movement and I am proud to be part of it.
Bryan May (Cambridge)
2021-04-15 18:47 [p.5716]
Madam Speaker, it is great to see my very distant cousin on the screen asking a question of me.
I have, in fact, heard of that and many other cases where some of the biggest corporations in the world have a strangle hold. They are using copyright in a way it was not intended. The point of Bill C-272 is to simply make a slight adjustment in the Copyright Act so folks have the opportunity to repair their own devices or take them to a repair shop.