Copyright infringement is not stealing - it's infringement. Any use of "theft" or "stealing" with respect to copyright infringement is just a propagandistic usage. Turcke should be ashamed of her sloppy usage.
Foolish woman. VPN isn't used to circumvent copyright; it's used to circumvent Byzantine region-based contracts. I don't have a contractual agreement with the studios, thus I am not violating any law when using VPN. It isn't illegal to watch content from other countries. That Bell Media woman can shove it. It's one thing to complain about piracy. It's quite another to complain about a customer's rational response to the fact that geography is a meaningless construct invented simply to make middleman distributors richer. Netflix has such a critical mass now, they ought to tell the content owners that it's worldwide or nothing. Sort of how iTunes initially told record companies how it was going to be.