Canada's DMCA: why is it a bad idea? -- UPDATED

On DigitalCopyright.ca, a good, sharp, short analysis of the pending Canadian version of the USA's rotten, hated, disastrous Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA):

1. Education – Canadian schools currently spend millions of dollars each year on copyright licenses to provide students with access to educational materials. The Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled that teachers, students and schools do not have to pay for certain uses of these materials (including research, private study, and certain classroom instruction). Contrary to the Court’s ruling and despite the millions of dollars schools already pay for copyright materials, the committee would require schools to divert millions of dollars more from education budgets – from students, schools and taxpayers - to pay for publicly available material on the Internet.

Link, En Francais (Thanks, Ian!)

Update: Ian sez, "they also have posted a open letter to the members of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, in reply to quotes seen in a Globe and Mail article."