Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would also like to thank our guests for being here today.
I am very interested in this topic because I am not very familiar with it. If we compare musicians to athletes, we can say that many athletes thank Canadians and our country for their support. In my riding of West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast, there are a lot of famous musicians, including Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLachlan, Randy Bachman, Shari Ulrich and Diana Krall. I am not sure whether I have heard them thank the government for its support.
Is that because musicians don’t think about it? I am not an expert in the area, nor am I Sarah McLachlan's long-time friend.
It is a matter of developing a program to support our musicians.
who have 28%, you said, of world sales in 2011, and $3 billion—