I'll start by saying I agree with Mr. Angus on the notion that we should go with themes, so it makes sense to have people interested in the educational aspect together. It makes sense to have consumer advocates together to some extent. Maybe we can work through that.
Again, though, on this idea of having the elected leaders of groups of artists, I assume they've elected and hired the people they want to represent them. If we were studying replacement legislation, we wouldn't invite every union member and every person in management and all the companies affected. We would invite the leadership. The organization would come, and as we see in committee after committee, they might choose to bring people who are personally affected by the legislation, but we certainly don't open the door for every single member of every union to come, or every single member of the management team of every organization.
In this case we've got an artist group that obviously has selected leaders. They've hired people to represent them. Those people have come to meet with all of us. I look forward to hearing from some of the individuals on this list. I assume that someone like Rex Goudie might come with ACTRA or come with another organization he's a part of. He's a good spokesman. He articulates the arguments well. I would assume they will have him come with them. But it's incumbent on those organizations to decide who is going to come and speak before the committee.
Mr. Angus is an artist himself. I think he would stand to get a cheque from the iPod tax if we had it, from the collective aspect, right? He's giving me the thumbs up. So maybe he wants to appear before the committee as an artist who would be getting a cheque if we had the iPod tax. I don't know.
There is no end if we go down that road. Going back to the previous meetings we had, we have to get through this process and pass some legislation, whatever that's going to look like when we get through the process, and we have to do it in somewhat of an organized manner, and again to open the door to thousands and thousands of individual artists and then potentially thousands and thousands of individual business people. At that point we're probably going to go down the road of inviting thousands and thousands of constituents and taxpayers. We have to constrain this a little bit, I think, in a way that's going to get us the best information to make the best decisions possible.