Canadian Heritage committee  So it's a small business or a large business. Currently the large businesses and large artists are very well funded. However, there is no small business strategy. Zack is a former arts entrepreneur. I'm a former arts entrepreneur. We end up becoming entrepreneurs in the music bus

Canadian Heritage committee  It's everyone including the signed artists and so on and so forth.

Canadian Heritage committee  CIRAA and others have attempted to modernize FACTOR. However, the bylaws dictating the institutional makeup of the FACTOR board of directors, created before the rise of the artist entrepreneur, assures us that nothing there is likely to change. Roughly half the seats are assigned

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Good morning. My name is Gregg Terrence. I'm the president of the Canadian Independent Recording Artists' Association, also known as CIRAA. I'm also the owner of Indie Pool, a Canadian independent music aggregator with over 100,000 Canadian songs on iTunes, which work

Canadian Heritage committee  These artists exist in a precarious and important stage of Canada's talent development system, a system that CIRAA often compares to an apple orchard. The end goal of having an orchard is to pick beautiful, new apples, shine them, and distribute them domestically, and preferably