Canadian Heritage committee  Can I answer that question, just very quickly? We are doing some local stuff.

Canadian Heritage committee  On the festival playlists, we are dealing with them outside of Montreal and Toronto as well: Ottawa blues; one we're working on for a B.C. summer festival; one in P.E.I.; and the Festival d’été in Quebec City, which has Canadian artists from all over. We also do celebrity curati

Canadian Heritage committee  Fantastic. I appreciate that.

Canadian Heritage committee  I think I know what it is. I think that Mr. Cunningham believes that our business model needs to be subscription-based. Our company has a subscription model, but it's not the main revenue generator for us, which is native advertising and integrating brands into our model. That'

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. We certainly deal with Re:Sound and we do pay a lot every single month, as we should, to the artists who are the basis of our business. So that is certainly not.... But I'm saying for the barrier to entry to other companies to grow the digital space, which is a place

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't have a problem with that because I believe we're probably over that already. So I don't. The model that we have—

Canadian Heritage committee  Honestly, I don't know. There are various levels they have to go through. The first round was a two-year process, and we've been waiting over 18 months for a decision. I don't know why.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry to interrupt. I also don't necessarily agree with all of Mr. Cunningham's either, so we can choose to disagree and have our own opinions.

Canadian Heritage committee  I have a few points, including help with the marketing efforts for the pure music services, which we consider ourselves to be, in that we're not tied to a multinational whose focus is not about music, and help with start-up funding grants for the new business models and changing

Canadian Heritage committee  Are you referring to Canadian content regulation or...? I'm unclear on the question.

Canadian Heritage committee  Right. At this point if we took out all the Canadian-only playlists within our system, I think at least 10% of our roster is Canadian content only, Canadian playlists, supporting Canadian artists. Obviously, we are dedicated and committed to being here. We have opened an office

Canadian Heritage committee  True, and in terms of investing in particular initiatives with the music industry, we are supporting all of the festivals by creating curated playlists for the festivals and pushing that content out with Festival d'été, with Luminato, with North by Northeast, and various other on

Canadian Heritage committee  As you requested I'm doing this with the filter of without monetary support, but if everyone could take the personal initiative to understand this digital music growth in Canada, understand the platforms, download the apps, look at how it is integrating with the Canadian culture

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much. I'm so sorry I can't be there in person. I had a CTV appearance this morning and couldn't get a flight out. I'm Vanessa Thomas, managing director of Songza Canada. I'm very happy to be asked to speak today about the ever-increasing world of digital music in