Leah Theriault, an S.J.D. candidate at the University of Toronto, writing in the inaugural issue of Innovate magazine (the in-house mag at the U of T's Centre for Innovation Law and Policy):
The Canadian Government’s slow pace in implementing the WIPO treaties could actually work to its advantage, allowing it to learn from the mistakes of other jurisdictions, particularly the U.S. Instead, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage has stated that it wants the government to have draft legislation ready by February 2004. We can only hope that the government has the good sense to realize what the copyright industries have not: if you treat your customers badly enough, they will eventually turn against you. And that is not in the copyright owners’ long-term interest.