Thank you, Madam Chair.
My name is Sophie Prégent, and I have been president of the Union des Artistes, the UDA, since 2013. The UDA represents 13,000 artists: dancers, lyric singers, pop singers, actors and comedians to name only a few. We represent professional artists who work in French in Quebec and the rest of Canada, as well as all artists who work in languages other than English.
I want to thank you for your attention to the situation of artists.
First, I will outline the current situation of the artists we represent. That situation has been broadly reported in our media, but here are a few telling numbers.