I would just add that every single year that goes by thousands and thousands of dollars that could end up in the pockets of some of the poorest labourers in Canada, all of your constituents, are being missed. These aren't people who have incomes to spare and the money is significant that they are losing as time goes on. We don't have the largest lobby voice in the world. Artists have a hard time acquiring the capacity that other lobby voices have, but this is something that we need and we've been asking for it for over a decade from CARFAC.
On October 27th, 2016. See this statement in context.