Sure. Thank you, MP Thomas, for your question. I'm comfortable answering the question, but I'll answer by telling a story, because I'm a storyteller.
Picture me back at the beginning of the pandemic. Locally, there was a big drive to make masks for the community. I took some fabric from my last business and donated a bunch of fabric. I donated so much fabric that my name was put on a plaque on a wall in the hospital.
An artist decided to do a small documentary about the story of mask-making, and she took my fabric—because that fabric is gorgeous and it looks great on camera—and showed the lifespan of it: dropping the fabric off, opening the fabric, cutting the fabric, making the fabric into masks, packing the fabric, donating the masks and then giving them to people. You know what? I was cut out of that documentary completely. Somebody else told the story and cut me out. When I asked her why, she said, “Oh my God, it's unconscious bias.” That, in my mind, is kind of racist.
That was one of the backstories, the darker side, of why I started my TikTok channel, because she said, “I took you out of the hero role.” I didn't look at myself as a hero before that, but if I get to tell my own story.... I don't trust that people are going to tell my story properly. It's my story, and if I get to be the hero, I'm going to own that.
Now, over 200,000 people liked my story and are inspired by my story, and I feel that being regulated is going to restrict me. I don't want restrictions put on me. It hasn't worked for me, in my favour, and I don't think it will. For a lot of people who don't fit into these boxes, it's not going to work for us.
I'm very concerned about Bill C-11. I'm very concerned about how this is going to affect all of us artists, especially in the digital space.
I hope that answers your question.