Canadian Heritage committee  What I would want to reiterate is that I'm not afraid for me. I think that if there were a back payment, I would probably have $7,000. What I'm more afraid of is that publishers need that money. They will go under, and our children won't have these wonderful jobs for [Technical d

Canadian Heritage committee  Actually, I wanted to drill back for the newer members. I wanted to explain something. I just wrote back copy for my new book, and it took me about three days going back and forth with other writers. Every page of a novel or a textbook requires editors. It requires illustrators

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes and no, but I wanted to add one point, which is that Jacqueline Guest, a member of the Order of Canada, was first published by Coteau. Coteau has now gone under. I would assume that if Jacqueline Guest were beginning today, she would not have her voice heard.

Canadian Heritage committee  How to answer you best, Mr. Waugh? Let me tell you this: When I do signings at the Ontario Library Association, I recognize the teachers from my own board. There will be three to five teachers lined up to get a free autographed book from me. That will be how they get my books.

Canadian Heritage committee  First off, regarding the author visit, as I said, back when I started and the Copyright Collective started, we also had whole language. There was a huge focus on kids reading regular novels to teach them grammar and spelling and to enjoy them, and as I said, we went into the scho

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to speak on behalf of CANSCAIP, Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers, the key creators in the educational sector, especially K to 12. First I want to acknowledge and celebrate five indigenous colleagues wi

Industry committee  I've always said you have to cobble together a living. I have never said that you can write one poem and live off of it or one picture book or one novel, but now I say you really can't make a living. I have tried every different way. I've written about shot peening. I turn nothin

Industry committee  Yes, and in my case, it's 90%.

Industry committee  I'm sorry. I do not, specifically to the indigenous authors, but I would say that it probably at this point affects them more, only because we have the year of reconciliation and the schools are looking for more curriculum material. Our indigenous authors are going to schools mor

Industry committee  Exactly, sir. We're determining it in the court of law.

Industry committee  I feel they have created guidelines and everyone is happy with it but we're not. You know they have decided that a certain percentage is open to them because of fair dealings.

Industry committee  When I said one poem, again, let's go back to the nature of the photocopying. If you have a whole anthology of different poets and you take one poem and consistently photocopy it or download it or whatever you want or post, at worst, and use it consistently every year, obviously

Industry committee  As I keep saying, everyone jumped to thinking it was a 10% grab, and that's really why the college has opted out because that 10% is now free....

Industry committee  No, it's perceived by the educational institutes and if we narrow that down, I would suggest we return to the Berne Convention. I don't know, but I think they had three measures. One measure was, does it interfere with the creator's ability to be compensated? For example, my exam

Industry committee  Yes, it's only perceived, and it's in every one of their....