Thank you very much, everyone, for being here today. I'm going to start by putting a question to the Writers Guild of Canada. It's not for lack of interest in the library, on the contrary, but I only have five minutes, and I'm going to try to see what I can do.
You at the Writers Guild of Canada have a talent for raising major problems, among other things, when you talk about having all the funds necessary for production; about ensuring that Canadians retain ownership of broadcasting and telecommunications businesses; about amending the Copyright Act, and the fact that you suggest there be contributions by the ISPs. I assume that's the FAIs in French, the fournisseurs d'accès à Internet.
I don't know which issues to start with, but I'm first going to talk about Google. Ms. Ashton, you said that what Google was doing was very good for people who used it as amateurs, if I may put it that way. Despite all the excellent work that represents, the fact remains that the money won't go to professional artists, that is to say to the people who live from their art or who are trying to live from it. I don't know whether the parallel I'm going to draw is a good one; you'll tell me. Thirty or 40 years ago—I'm not as old as that—some artists were invited to appear on stage and were told that, since they were going to become well known, there was no need to pay them. I've heard that so often it's hopeless. I don't think there's any difference between that physical stage I'm talking about and Google. So I want to know what you think of that.