Industry Committee on Sept. 24th, 2018

Evidence of meeting #127 for Industry, Science and Technology in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was artists.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Statutory Review of the Copyright Act

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Freya Zaltz Regulatory Affairs Director, National Campus and Community Radio Association

Nathalie Dorval Chair, Board of Directors, Canadian Association of Broadcasters

Annie Francoeur Vice-President, Legal and Business Affairs, Stingray Digital Group Inc.

Susan Wheeler Chair, Copyright Committee, Canadian Association of Broadcasters

Dan Albas Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, CPC

Michael Chong Wellington—Halton Hills, CPC

Celina Caesar-Chavannes Whitby, Lib.

5 p.m.

Chair, Copyright Committee, Canadian Association of Broadcasters

Susan Wheeler

I do not think we've broken that down. The tariff in itself generates $18 million. If you wanted to do the rough math that way, I'm not sure it would be accurate. We could look and try to provide that information for you. It is private because we're all competitors at the end of the day as part of an association.

5 p.m.

Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, CPC

Dan Albas

Sure. Even if that information were to be aggregated...I don't want Ms. Zaltz being the only person who has homework.

5 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Dan Ruimy

Thank you very much for these very good questions. The whole point of this is to push a little back so that we get information that we can then put in our report and try to have a better understanding and come up with some good actionable recommendations.

Earlier, Ms. Wheeler, you propped up a chart. Could you submit that? We're not sure what that was. We don't have that.

5 p.m.

Chair, Copyright Committee, Canadian Association of Broadcasters

Susan Wheeler

We had one chart on radio and the actual neighbouring rights. I was referring to a recent article about Spotify changing its business model to benefit artists more directly by taking out the label relationship. I can certainly provide you with the reference to that.

5 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Dan Ruimy

The one with the two graphs on it?

5 p.m.

Chair, Copyright Committee, Canadian Association of Broadcasters

Susan Wheeler

Yes.

5 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Dan Ruimy

Yes that's the one. If you can forward that it would be good for us.

5 p.m.

Chair, Copyright Committee, Canadian Association of Broadcasters

Susan Wheeler

Absolutely. My pleasure.

5 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Dan Ruimy

On that note, I want to thank our witnesses for coming today all the way from British Columbia. Hopefully it's sunny over there today.

We're going to suspend for a couple of minutes then we're going to come back in camera to finish off our business.

[Proceedings continue in camera]