Thank you.
My name is Jacqueline Hushion, and I am the executive director of the Canadian Publishers' Council. We represent the interests of companies that publish books and digital and other electronic media for college and university students and faculty, for elementary and secondary schools, students, and teachers, and for the professional and reference markets in law, medicine, and accounting, as well as the general interest non-fiction and fiction for children and adults found in Canada's retail marketplace and in all types of libraries.
Together, the members of the Educational Resources Council and our association employ more than 4,500 Canadians. If you factor that up to include other associations in Canada, and ANEL, which was before you the other day, that comes to 9,700 jobs. Some of you have probably seen this document I have here. It has been making its way around lately. In the overall sector to which we belong, those 9,700 jobs factor up to 85,000 jobs at the end of the day.
Our own members invested $75 million in production and manufacture of print. Make no mistake about it, print is still the lion's share of the demand from the marketplace, and our members have to respond to what the marketplace wants. As well, in 2011, our members published 8,000 titles in print and made more than 18,000 Canadian titles available in electronic format—18,000. Our members invested $35 million in the marketing of Canadian print and digital works and paid $50 million in publishing advances and royalties to Canada's authors.
That's what's potentially at stake. Sound copyright that protects the marketplace for copyright works is the spine of the publishing industry's body of work in every country in the world.
Thank you.
Go ahead, David.