New Canadian Copyright Law and Apple TV

Hello fellow Canadians,
Assuming it passes, would the new copyright law debated in parliament affect the way we can legally use our Apple TVs? On this Apple forum, Apple does not like any discussion on how to move commercial DVDs to Apple TV due to copyright infringement and this is a good policy on Apple's part.
The new copyright law has a clause regarding 'replatforming' or something like that. The example I read in the newspaper is that a song purchased on a CD can legally be moved to a personal user's iPod. This is different than the government's failed attempt at a new copyright law a few years ago. That previous version would not have allowed this kind of transfer. Perhaps that is why the law didn't pass.
If the new law passes and it it becomes legal to move a song purchased on a CD to an iPod, wouldn't it also be the case that a movie purchased on a DVD can be moved to Apple TV? If so, would that also mean we can openly discuss such topics here?
I know one caveat on the new copyright law is that you cannot bypass any copy protection. I'm not sure if the average consumer would even know if such copy protection existed on a CD or DVD they purchased.

I may step on some toes here but I think it needs to be said.
Previous versions of this law had very tight restrictions of copings files or any content which made iPods, back up disks and even a VCR illegal. The new copyright law does allow for making copies for the various devices you may own as well as for backing up digital copy protected files. It also allows for ripping cd/dvds for your own use which I do believe is still legal in the US. What it does now restrict the breaking of the digital copy protection which is found on pretty much all DVDs and purchased video files. Most music CDs and music files are not copy protected with digital copy protection and can be ripped or transcoded for personal use. Pretty much all commercial DVD's and video files have digital copy protection. These can not be legally ripped or transcoded since it will require breaking the digital copy protection.
In a nutshell yes you can legally rip a CD/DVD or transcode files but only if it has no digital copy protection.
This post will probably get deleted or I may get scolded for stating this. You will probably be OK if you rip your DVD's, just don't share them on P2P sites or sit on a street corner selling pirated copies of DVD's. Use them for your own use and don't hand off copies to all your friends.

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