After listening to the exchanges at the earlier meetings and trying to understand about the large numbers that seem to be missing from somebody's pocketbook, and where they're coming from, and where they're going, and who's missing them, I begin to understand....
Libraries and educational institutions are paying more. It seems that Statistics Canada is showing us that there's no harm being done to the publishing industry. Book sales in Canada are going up. Maybe we should look at what's happening within the industry with the distribution of that income. That's opaque. Who can see that? If we can't see it, we can't know where that's going and where the shortfall is. Maybe that's somewhere we could begin to have a lookâat things that aren't clear or transparent. That might be one way.