As I understand it, Bill C‑11 will bring online platforms under the authority of the CRTC. This could help the Status of the Artist Act so that online platform operators would become interlocutors. Currently, we cannot send a notice to bargain or ask an online platform operator to come and negotiate with an artists' association. It is currently impossible. We can't establish a legal link.
As you were saying, online platforms have significantly changed the way music and audiovisual works are consumed. In sound recordings, the sale of physical albums has fallen dramatically. A lot of the revenue that was generated by the music industry is now in the pockets of online platform operators outside the country. Just to give you an idea, for every sale of a record costing $25, the producer received $10—