Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here. This has been quite an education for me, because I'm not terribly familiar with the music industry.
I keep hearing some repeated themes. Some of them disturb me very much.
Mr. Johnston, you've said twice, in a couple of different ways, that the ability of songwriters to earn a living is in jeopardy and that there could be a collapse in terms of the creator side of music. From my perspective, that's pretty much the end. If people can no longer do the creative part because they're starving, because they can't possibly do it and make a living, it seems to me that we're in real jeopardy.
What I keep hearing—and I think this may be a concrete recommendation that should be part of our report—is that there needs to be a collaborative effort. Government needs to take the lead, and we need to bring all the parties to the table: the creators, the producers, the marketers, and the providers, the Internet providers and streamers. We need to bring the parties to the table and work out a system whereby everyone benefits, where the creative process can continue, because it would seem to me that these Internet providers, the streamers, are not going to fare very well if those creators aren't there to provide that incredible product.
I'm wondering if you could comment on that and if that makes sense in terms of the kind of recommendation that I think is emerging from the discussion we've been having.