Good morning.
First, thank you for the invitation to appear before you.
The Alliance nationale de l'industrie musicale (ANIM) works in francophone and Acadian communities, or, in other words, in official language minority communities.
ANIM is a small organization; I am the only employee. I am accompanied by Jean-Pierre Caissie, who is an administrator on the board.
We are certainly not copyright experts, but on the ground, we can certainly understand and see that there is a problem with artists' remuneration. We note that nations are still able to legislate and to ensure that their artists receive fair remuneration. When we look at the statistics, we see that some countries are much more generous than ours in this regard. We would like Canada to be a leader, not a laggard in this area.
I will let Mr. Caissie make the presentation.