It's because the tariffs are built in a way that you pay either a minimum per commercial location or a percentage of revenue. Whatever we pay in royalties would remain the same. It's just that when SOCAN or Re:Sound distribute that money to their artists, the local artist would receive more because we have played more Canadian music, as opposed to famous international artists, where the money would go through SOCAN to their counterpart in the U.S. or U.K., which would then allocate to the international artists.
On September 25th, 2018. See this statement in context.