Mr. Paul Larche at the Bill C-32 (40th Parliament, 3rd Session) Committee

I can answer that.

As an owner-operator, I can tell you that when I bought the first radio station I owned, as I said, in 1975, we were paying 3.2% to SOCAN. It was one collective at the time. This past year, I paid just under 9% to all the various collectives. I've just about tripled in rights payments to the various collectives that have been added on and on.