Timeshifting isn't forbidden, but recording TV programs is.
To quote from that article, "[...] address this issue as well, either by expanding the fair dealing user right such that home television taping would be permitted ...". It wouldn't be necessary to "address this issue" if it were already permitted.
>Timeshifting isn't forbidden, but recording TV programs is.
Again, the article says nothing of the sort. He's arguing in favor of explicitly permitting certain kinds of recording, which the law currently does not. Nor, to my knowledge, and certainly not as far as the article claims, does it forbid it. It is currently unregulated, which means you're free to do it, and others are free to try and stop you.
Ok, since we clearly disagree about what he was writing, I'll point you at the copyright act:
a broadcaster has a copyright in the communication signals that it broadcasts, consisting of the sole right to do the following in relation to the communication signal or any substantial part thereof:
(a) to fix it,
To quote from that article, "[...] address this issue as well, either by expanding the fair dealing user right such that home television taping would be permitted ...". It wouldn't be necessary to "address this issue" if it were already permitted.