Canadian Heritage committee  First of all, we're regulated such that from the local standpoint, in terms of local content, we can't necessarily have local content, per se, on satellite radio. I'll let Andréanne talk a little bit about how we promote local bands through the CCD expenditures and through conce

Canadian Heritage committee  Let me be clear, I absolutely agree that Songza pays the royalties for their artists at the current rate that they're set by Re:Sound. I'm sure that operating in Canada they're paying the royalties at the streaming rate today, so I'm not disagreeing with her that the company is n

Canadian Heritage committee  What I'm basically saying is that we're regulated for content and also for CCD contributions under the Broadcasting Act. I'm just asking that—the same as terrestrial radio—online services are regulated, or fall under the same guidelines as terrestrial radio and satellite radio.

Canadian Heritage committee  Just for the record, we are a Canadian-owned business. But again, I just think it has to be a level playing field. You know, we have to charge for content. We have to pay artists. Having free streaming or something out there today is not going to trickle down to artists. People

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm not an expert on that in terms of how we're going to do it if it comes to regulating online or how we would regulate it across. I know that's more the CRTC.... I really can't answer that today. I just know that it's one of the recommendations we see. We should all be operatin

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't necessarily agree with Madam Thomas, but everybody has their own opinion in terms of expressing it.

Canadian Heritage committee  As I stated earlier, what we would like to see is a level playing field from a regulatory and a CCD standpoint and to have it all equal across all different sources of music content in Canada. By doing that it allows us to continue to support Canadian music and also be able to co

Canadian Heritage committee  Financially we've grown the business dramatically over the last eight years. We have about $280 million of revenue. I think we have an EBITA of approximately $68 million for the last year. We've made it profitable and we've worked hard at it. To answer the question you had of wh