Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to the witnesses for being here. It's a topic—and I thank you for suggesting it—that's going to be of interest.
We don't have some of the powerhouse Canadian entertainers. I remember Garth Brooks, when he wandered through our part of the country. He did one concert, and of course the price of the tickets was nuts. The next time back, he said, “I'm going to fix this”, so in Calgary and Edmonton he did six nights each to saturate the market so that everybody could get in, and he said, “Do a reasonable ticket price.”
He thus fixed it himself, but there are not many powerhouses out there who can do so.
You talked about sports. The Blue Jays have gotten themselves into a little trouble because they were just offloading tickets and getting kickbacks. That doesn't do them well in the PR sector, but how many other sports teams may be doing this? I don't know.
Do you have any thoughts? The Blue Jays can't be the only ones.