Mr. Speaker, since the Federal Court's McGillis ruling has laid the board's independence open to question, the departments, the ministers and the secretaries of state must realize that they would be jeopardizing the very independence of the Copyright Board and the principle of equity itself.
mcgillis ruling damaged their reputation.
I summarized McGillis ruling has laid the board's independence open to question. I think the system didn't assume the boards indepedence in question was their reputation.