Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I want to thank everyone for being here. There are a lot of sharp people around the table.
As you clearly stated, with surgical precision, Ms. Dinsmore, our committee's mandate is to make sure that creators are protected in Canada. That is especially important given the strange dance going on right now between two committees which will present two separate reports. Yet the new act will have a single author, who will choose what to put in the two reports, according to the government's wishes. It is very unfortunate that the members of these two committees are working in this uncertainty, not really knowing what kind of fruit they are picking, but they are picking nonetheless. They are gathering information.
First, I would like to ask the ACTRA representatives to reiterate how important it is for Canada to manage copyright in a way that is in keeping with the times and international standards. That is not the case right now, which is creating problems for you and for rights holders alike. You just said that you can collect revenues abroad, because there is a way to collect royalties that does not exist here. At the same time, foreign rights holders are not very interested in investing or disseminating works here because they are not as well protected as elsewhere. Is that correct?