Thank you, Mr. Chair, for inviting us to appear today. My name is Sylvie Courtemanche. In my day job, I am the vice-president and associate general counsel for government relations and compliance for Corus Entertainment, but I am also very proud to serve as the chair of the Radio Starmaker board.
I would like to introduce my two distinguished guests, who will be doing the talking today.
First is Chip Sutherland, who is our executive director. Perhaps more importantly, Chip is an entertainment lawyer from Halifax who has practised for over 20 years representing artists in the music business as well as managing such Canadian successes as Sloan and Feist. He is also the co-author of the Canadian edition of the bestselling book All You Need to Know About the Music Business by Donald Passman.
Also with me today is a man who really needs no introduction, Alan Doyle, the lead singer of Great Big Sea, an accomplished museum—