Thank you, Mr. Chair. Maybe I'll carry on with that discussion.
Generally speaking, the testimony we have received over the last number of weeks in Ottawa and Halifax has been that there has never been a time when universities and others have purchased more. They claim that there has been more spent than ever before.
Now, I know for a fact that the cost of tuition and education has not gone down; actually, it has disproportionally gone up, when you look at the cost of education over this period of time.
Putting that aside, you also have artists who have come to us since that time saying that their revenues are down quite significantly. Last night's testimony in Halifax was that people are losing up to two-thirds to sometimes four-fifths of their royalty income.
We have these kinds of imbalances here. Where do you think the money is going? Or are we—maybe not intentionally—being misled? What is happening? We are being told consistently that purchasing is way up, production is still there, and artists are getting less.
Does anyone want to take a crack at this?