I appreciate your thoughts and couldn't agree more.
I could never have imagined I'd be appearing before a heritage committee to talk about this, but over time it's become clear that there just isn't the interest on their part. Because of the slight unclarity in the act—and this speaks to one of our suggestions for the act—I suppose CMPA doesn't feel compelled to sit down with us. The intent of the Status of the Artist Act was to give groups like ours, which are certified under the act, the power to bring these federally appointed entities to the table.
We did undertake...a few years ago with CTV—that was before 2015—and we kind of got caught when they were purchased by Bell.