Canadian Heritage committee  It might not be clear. This is not something that they used to have to pay for.

Canadian Heritage committee  It's considered promotion now, but it has also replaced paid consumption. I guess that's the main difference.

Canadian Heritage committee  The first thing that has to be looked at is with current funding, the measurement for success tends to be aligned with record sales. I can't speak for Musicaction but definitely with FACTOR the measurement for how effective funding goes tends to go towards sales and that is not r

Canadian Heritage committee  Perhaps I may attempt to clarify. I think it's next to impossible to make a living from your recordings. The point I was trying to make is that those recordings are still the centrepiece of what an artist does. It's just that balance has shifted. Let's give the best example. Th

Canadian Heritage committee  It's not that the money is not going to the artist. It's that the actual sales of recordings have declined to such a point, and people have been steadily shifting toward streaming services that are paying the micropennies that Brian was just talking about. I should point out the

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much for inviting me to speak on behalf of the Polaris Music Prize. I realize in the preparatory material that I read, it said not to describe what you do too much but to get to the matters at hand, but if you'll just permit me I'll mention the following. We ar