We grew up in a world, all of us, where there was something called the Pareto effect, where 20% of the people have 80% of the wealth. That dominated, but the 20% of the money that was left over for the 80% in music was enough to create a middle class. That middle class, ladies and gentlemen, is gone. In the world that we're moving into, what we're seeing is an unprecedented shift of wealth away from creators to intermediaries, and as for our world, it looks like the 1% versus the 99%. That's what it looks like.
I would say that it is not enough to cast creators into the cockpit of some sort of social Darwinism, or as I said earlier, adapt or die. This is Canada, and we can do better, but we have to recognize the collective responsibility, and we have to put creators at the heart of our policy-making for the next 15 years.