First off, regarding the author visit, as I said, back when I started and the Copyright Collective started, we also had whole language. There was a huge focus on kids reading regular novels to teach them grammar and spelling and to enjoy them, and as I said, we went into the schools daily.
There is a technological shift too. We want to be makerspace and we want to be coding, so the heroic author, the author who comes into the school, is not coming there and there aren't these huge festivals. However, I still get snail mail and fan letters, and kids still want to be writers. The reason I showed you Orson's letter is so that I can write to him and say I showed his letter in Parliament. I am still encouraging them to be writers, but perhaps they can be lawyers part time.
In terms of the impact, the kids don't know anything about copyright, and I will say that the teachers don't either. They feel that they are doing it. In my K-to-12 sector, we're not that digital. The kids can get our books online in the library; They don't. They still need hard copies. As I said, my indigenous friends don't have strong Internet. In K to 12, we're still very much using book books and photocopying.
I think parents want to pay the $2.41 so that children's literature is still Canadian and speaks to them. As to our future voices, we'll see. We'll have to see about that. Will there be fewer authors in the school and fewer books, and just floppy paper? I don't know.
Did I answer you? I'm sorry. I go off on tangents.